Abstract: The growing demands for food with ever increasing human population have widespread use of pesticides. Pesticide residues may possess short-term or long-term toxicity issues depending upon their type and exposure. Pesticides can have a variety of detrimental effects on their anticipated target, which includes humans. Therefore, there is great need to firmly regulated and monitored properly pesticide residues in foods to protect the healthiness of consumers. To do this, precise, responsive, and robust investigative methods are essential for effective management of pesticide. Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry and gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry techniques are often used. The most popular method for detecting pesticide residues is to utilise a triple quadrupole mass analyzer in the selective reaction monitoring mode. However, at least two products are required for chemical identification, and the ion ratio from sample extracts should be within 30 % of calibration standards from the same sequence. This belief encompasses several technologies aimed at achieving speedy, selective, cost-effective, and sensitive food safety screening. Optical or electrochemical transducers are frequently used to monitor biorecognition events, which are primarily based on bio-affinity interactions between selective biomolecules such as antibodies or enzymes and pesticide residues. Therefore, the present review is aimed at discussing the various rapid detection methods to detect the presence of pesticide residues in vegetables and foods.