“…However, in recent years a large number of works based on the use of either liquid chromatography or gas chromatography in combination with mass spectrometry (MS) have been published (Barceló-Barrachina, Moyano, & Galceran, 2004;Barceló-Barrachina, Santos, Puignou, & Galceran, 2005;Barceló-Barrachina et al, 2006;Casal, Mendes, Fernandes, Oliveira, & Ferreira, 2004;Toribio, Moyano, Puignou, & Galceran, 2002;Turesky, Taylor, Schnackenberg, Freeman, & Holland, 2005;Zhang et al, 2008), especially liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (LC/MS) have been widely used for HAAs analysis in these complex samples (Toribio et al, 2002;Barceló-Barrachina et al, 2004, 2006Turesky et al, 2005). LC/MS is favoured because it provides both qualitative and quantitative information, without the requirement of analytes derivatization.…”