“…Magnetic particle-based immunoassays have previously been described and applied to the detection of pesticide residues in water (Lawruk et al, 1992;Gruess-ner et al, 1995), soil (Lawruk et al, 1993(Lawruk et al, , 1996, crops (Yeung and Newsome, 1995;Lawruk et al, 1995;Selisker et al, 1995), fruit and fruit juice (Itak et al, 1993(Itak et al, , 1994, wine (Lawruk et al, 1994), and meats (Nam and King, 1994). Other previously described immunoassays for chlorpyrifos (Manclu ´s et al, 1994;Hill et al, 1994) utilized antibody passively adsorbed to polystyrene plates or tubes which adversely affects assay sensitivity and precision (Howell et al, 1981).…”