Abstract :
Kencur is a traditional medicine which has been very popular by the
people of Indonesian. Efforts to control the destructive organisms in this plant still
using pesticides. Misuse the rules of pesticides and the residues will induce the
negative impacts for kencur?s consumers, especially hepar disease. This research
was conducted to find out the content of pesticide organophosphate?s
contamination, especially dimethoate by Spektrofotometri UV-Vis method.
Qualitative analysis in this research using color reagents was result that kencur had
positive contains residues of dimethoate pesticides. Quantitative analysis was result
that wavelength 714.0 nm and operating time in the 10th minute. Based on the
results of the research detected pesticide contamination dimetoatwith an average
content of 0.2734 mg / kg where the results exceed the established Maximum
Residue Limit (BMR) of <0.1 mg / kg and indicate that the kencur sample is
dangerous for consumption.