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Pesticide residue analysis of fruits and vegetables is of great importance not only towards protection of human health but also for international trade and regulatory control. In the last years, pesticide residue analysis, based on high-resolution accurate mass spectrometry (HRAMS), has gained great acceptance in this field due to the improvements in sensitivity and resolution incorporated in modern HRAMS instruments. The current work deals with the process and general procedure to estimate a pesticide residue in food which includes the sampling procedures for different food commodities, packaging, trans- mission of laboratory samples, sub-sampling, homogenizing the sample for analysis, re- serve storage of sample, solvent selection, extraction, clean-up and then estimating the pesticide residues using few standard estimation procedures (micro bio assay, enzyme inhibition method, spectrophotometric method, chromatography, etc.). This also includes a case study by Asi. et.al.[9]. The conclusion made out from the study is that the use of pesticide is necessary in certain limits which comes under the Good Agricultural Practice (GAP). But uncontrolled application of these leaves residues which cause adverse health effect. The study also provides farmers with adequate information for safe practices for use of pesticides, side effects caused by handling of the harmful chemicals. Our study revealed that chemical control is the principle pest control method followed by farmers in the study area and this usage could be reduced by providing them with training and information about the bio pesticides and helping them know the seriousness that is being posed by excessive use of chemical pesticides and their residue.