Analysis of pesticides in honey by solid-phase extraction and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry

An analytical method for the simultaneous determination of 51 pesticides in commercial honeys was developed. Honey (10 g) was dissolved in water/methanol (7030; 10 mL) and transferred to a C18 column (1 g) preconditioned with acetonitrile and water. Pesticides were subsequently eluted with a hexane/ethyl acetate mixture (5050) and determined by gas chromatography with electron impact mass spectrometric detection in the selected ion monitoring mode (GC-MS-SIM). Spiked blank samples were used as standards to counteract the matrix effect observed in the chromatographic determination. Pesticides were confirmed by their retention times, their qualifier and target ions, and their qualifier/target abundance ratios. Recovery studies were performed at 0.1, 0.05, and 0.025 μg/g fortification levels for each pesticide, and the recoveries obtained were >86% with relative standard deviations of <10%. Good resolution of the pesticide mixture was achieved in ∼41 min. The detection limits of the method ranged from 0.1 to 6.1 μg/kg for the different pesticides studied. The developed method is linear over the range assayed, 25-200 μg/L, with determination coefficients of >0.996. The proposed method was applied to the analysis of pesticides in honey samples, and low levels of a few pesticides (dichlofluanid, ethalfluralin, and triallate) were detected in some samples.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Albero, B., Sánchez-Brunete, C., Tadeo, J. L.
Format:	journal article biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	2004
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12792/5637
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