“…Due to the current limitations associated with traditional extraction methods, including being instrumentally demanding, time consuming, tedious, expensive and often involving large volumes of toxic solvents new approaches are being devised for the extraction of PAHs to counter these drawbacks. In addition, several extract clean-up steps are also required upstream of gas chromatography (GC) to protect GC columns prior to analysis [5] . GC coupled with tandem mass spectrometry is widely used for the analysis of PAHs due to its high specificity and sensitivity [6] , [7] , [8] , [9] , [10] , [11] , [12] , [13] , [14] , [15] .…”