“…The extracts were cleaned up using solid-phase extraction (Zhao et al, 2014) or liquid-liquid partitioning with organic solvent such as dichloromethane (Zhang et al, 2015), ethyl acetate (Hong et al, 2011), or dispersive solid-phase extraction (Cabizza, Satta, Falconi, Onano, & Uccheddu, 2007). The commonly used analytical instruments for pymetrozine are HPLC (De, Commissati, Gritti, Catellani, & Suman, 2015;Hong et al, 2011); LC-MS/MS (Camino-Sanchez et al, 2010;Dias et al, 2013;Fernandes et al, 2014) and GC (Jang et al, 2014). In addition, modified QuEChERS (quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged and safe) sample preparation procedures have been successfully used to recover pymetrozine from beef (Oliveira, Pereira, Gobbi, Soto-Blanco, & Melo, 2018), coffee (Dias et al, 2013), strawberries (Fernandes et al, 2014), tomato, cucumber and watermelon (Camino-Sanchez et al, 2010).…”