“…Developed in 2003 by Anastassiades, QuEChERS sample preparation has been readily accepted by many pesticide residue analysts over the years [13,14]. In the section of instrumental analysis, a literature survey (Table 1) shows several methods for the detection of carbamate pesticide residues have been developed at low concentration levels in various samples, such as electrochemical detection [15], liquid chromatography [16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24], high-performance thin-layer chromatography [25], liquid chromatography with post-column fluorescence derivatization [26,27] and liquid chromatography with different mass spectrometry [28,29,30,31,32]. Of all the instrumental methods, the LC-MS system that combines the separation ability of liquid chromatography along with the sensitivity and specificity of detection from mass spectrometry and abandoned the additional derivation procedure of whole analysis process has gone mainstream for pesticide residue analysis.…”