简介:Pesticides in foodstuff are becoming a major issue due to their intensive use in agriculture. Thus an appropriate control of their residues
in food samples has to be operated. In this study we analysed 105 pesticides wi简介:Pesticides in foodstuff are becoming a major issue due to their intensive use in agriculture. Thus an appropriate control of their residues
in food samples has to be operated. In this study we analysed 105 pesticides with GC/SQ-MS and 46 pesticides with HPLC/IT-MS
after extraction with the QuECheRS method in four matrices (grape, lemon, onion and tomatoes). For GC-amenable substances, the
LOD and LOQ ranged from 0.4 to 48.2 lg/kg and from 1.2 to161 lg/kg, respectively. For HPLC-amenable substances, they varied from
1.0 to 115 lg/kg and from 3.3 to 382 lg/kg, respectively. With GC/MS, 61–82% of the substances showed a recovery in the range of 70–
110% and 6–30 % presented a recovery higher than 110% at the 500 lg/kg fortification level. With HPLC/MS, 87–93% of the substances
presented recoveries in the range of 70–110% at the 500 lg/kg fortification level compared to 78–85% at the 50 lg/kg fortification level.
Lemon and onion showed poor recoveries but are known to be difficult matrices (high acidic and high sulfur content, respectively). The
method was proved to be repeatable with RSD lower than 20% at 500 lg/kg and lower than 15% at 50 lg/kg with both devices.详细>