title: Pesticide and plasticizer residues in bergamot essential oils from Calabria (Italy).
abstract: Organophosphorus and organochlorine pesticides, phosphorated plasticizers, chloroparaffins and phthalate esters contamination in bergamot essential oils produced in Calabria in the crop years 1999-2000 was studied by HRGC in connection with detectors FPD, ECD, MS. Residues of dicofol and tetradifon were found in oils from both crop years. The mean dicofol concentration was 0.26 mg/l in samples from 1999 and 0.20 mg/l in those from 2000; the mean tetradifon content was 0.06 mg/l for both the crop years. Among plasticizers, residues of diisobutyl phthalate, di-n-butyl phthalate, and bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate were found in samples from crop years 1999 and 2000, the mean content were 1.22 and 1.23 mg/l, 1.51 and 1.65 mg/l, 1.38 and 1.42 mg/l respectively.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento Farmaco-Chimico, Facoltà di Farmacia, Università di Messina, Viale Annunziata, 98165 Messina, Italy.
authors.forename: Giuseppa
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Di Bella
authors.forename: Marcello
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Saitta
authors.forename: Lara
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: La Pera
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alfa
authors.forename: Giacomo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dugo
mesh_terms: D002849:Chromatography, Gas; D004010:Dicofol / Q000032:analysis; D004952:Esters / Q000032:analysis; D005506:Food Contamination / Q000032:analysis*; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D006843:Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated / Q000032:analysis; D007306:Insecticides / Q000032:analysis; D007558:Italy; D009822:Oils, Volatile / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry*; D010232:Paraffin / Q000032:analysis; D010573:Pesticide Residues / Q000032:analysis*; D010795:Phthalic Acids / Q000032:analysis; D010938:Plant Oils / Q000737:chemistry*; D010968:Plasticizers / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D004952:Esters; D006843:Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated; D007306:Insecticides; D009822:Oils, Volatile; D010573:Pesticide Residues; D010795:Phthalic Acids; D010938:Plant Oils; D010968:Plasticizers; C068336:bergamot oil; D010232:Paraffin; C005807:tetradifon; D004010:Dicofol