Rapid pesticide analysis, in post-harvest plants used as animal feed, by low-pressure gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.
A wide range of pesticides used to control pests in vegetables have been determined in agricultural plant waste from beans, watermelons, and melons grown in greenhouses located in a predominantly agricultural area in Southeast Spain (Almería). Analysis of the pesticides was carried out by low-pressure gas chromatography (LP-GC) with mass spectrometry in tandem (MS-MS) mode, after extraction of the lyophilized samples with dichloromethane. The influence of the sample matrix on the analysis was avoided by use of matrix-matched standards. Linearity, detection limit ( LOD), quantitation limit ( LOQ), recovery, and precision for each pesticide were calculated. The most frequently encountered pesticides were endosulfan (>73% of the analyzed samples) and buprofezin (>55% of the samples), followed by cypermethrin, pirimifos-methyl, bifentrin, and chlorpyrifos (>30% of the samples). The pesticide found at the highest concentration level was endosulfan (223.33 mg kg(-1)) in a watermelon sample.
Garrido-Frenich
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Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Almería, 04071, Almería, Spain.
Arrebola
F J
FJ
González-Rodríguez
M J
MJ
Vidal
J L Martínez
JL
Díez
N Mora
NM
D000821:Animal Feed / Q000032:analysis*; D002138:Calibration; D029773:Citrullus / Q000737:chemistry; D028462:Cucumis / Q000737:chemistry; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000032:analysis; D007887:Fabaceae / Q000737:chemistry; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods*; D010575:Pesticides / Q000032:analysis*; D018515:Plant Leaves / Q000737:chemistry; D018547:Plant Stems / Q000737:chemistry; D010944:Plants / Q000737:chemistry*; D011312:Pressure; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013030:Spain; D013997:Time Factors
D004785:Environmental Pollutants; D010575:Pesticides