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A multiresidue method by high performance liquid chromatography-based fractionation and gas chromatographic determination of trace levels of pesticides in air and water

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A multiresidue analytical method is described for pesticides, transformation products, and related toxicants based upon high performance liquid Chromatographic (HPLC) fractionation of extracted residue on a Partisil® silica gel normal phase column followed by selective-detector gas chromatographic (GC) determination of components in each fraction. The HPLC mobile phase gradient (hexane to methylt-butyl ether) gave good Chromatographic efficiency, resolution, reproducibility and recovery for 61 test compounds, and allowed for collection in four fractions spanning polarities from low polarity organochlorine compounds (fraction 1) to polarN-methylcarbamates and organophosphorus oxons (fraction 4). The multiresidue method was developed for use with air samples collected on XAD-4® and related trapping agents, and water samples extracted with methylene chloride. Detection limits estimated from spiking experiments were generally 0.3–1 ng/m3 for high-volume air samples, and 0.01–0.1 μg/L for one-liter water samples. Applications were made to determination of pesticides in fogwater and air samples.

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  1. Belts ville Agricultural Research Center, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD

    Dwight E. Glotfelty

  2. Merck, Sharp, and Dohme Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ

    Teresa A. Wehner

  3. Department of Environmental Toxicology, University of California, 95616, Davis, California, USA

    James N. Seiber, Dwight E. Glotfelty, Anne D. Lucas, Michael M. McChesney, John C. Sagebiel & Teresa A. Wehner

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Seiber, J.N., Glotfelty, D.E., Lucas, A.D. et al. A multiresidue method by high performance liquid chromatography-based fractionation and gas chromatographic determination of trace levels of pesticides in air and water. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 19, 583–592 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01059079

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