“…As mentioned in the introduction, extraction and pre-concentration of aromatic hydrocarbon compounds from soil samples have been carried out employing Soxhlet extraction, matrix solid-phase dispersion, MAE, ultrasonic and mechanical agitation, QuEChERS method and pressurized and supercritical fluid extraction [29]. Despite of PHAs analysis been traditionally carried out by GC-MS, recently SFC-MS has also been used to separate them [73]. An enhanced extraction and identification by SFE-SFC-MS (1) naphthalene, (2) acenaphthylene, (3) acenaphthene, (4) fluorene, (5) phenanthrene, (6) anthracene, (7) fluoranthene, (8) pyrene, (9) benzo(a)anthracene, (10) chrysene, (11) benzo(b) fluoranthene, (12) benzo(k)fluoranthene, (13) benzo(a)pyrene, (14) dibenzo(a,h)anthracene, (15) indeno(1,2,3-cd)pyrene, (16) benzo(g,h,i)perylene.…”