Multi-residue determination of 130 multiclass pesticides in fruits and vegetables by gas chromatography coupled to triple quadrupole tandem mass spectrometry

Application of Fast Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry in Combination with the QuEChERS Method for the Determination of Pesticide Residues in Fruits and Vegetables

“…In the last years, tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) has emerged as a very interesting approach since it allows minimizing matrix interferences and chemical noise in the chromatograms, improving selectivity and sensitivity. Numerous applications based on GC-MS/MS have been reported for the determination of multiclass pesticides using triple quadrupole (Cervera et al 2010;Frenich et al 2005;Medina et al 2009) or ion trap detector analyzers (González-Rodríguez et al 2008;Zhang et al 2008), some of them including around or more than 100 target analytes. In parallel to the interest of increasing the number of compounds in a single chromatographic run, there is a trend to decrease chromatographic run times in multiresidue analysis.…”

Química Analítica i salut pública

“…Amb una anàlisi realitzada amb GC-MS/MS és possible detectar, identificar i quantificar simultàniament diversos plaguicides (tres organofosforats i una piretrina) a escales de concentració inferiors a 0,03 mg/kg en tots els casos (Cervera, 2010). La determinació de residus de plaguicides constitueix una àrea prioritària en els laboratoris de salut pública.…”

Critical Revision and Development Perspectives of Herbicide Residues Analysis in Agro Ecosystems

“…Herbicides like molinate, atrazine, diuron are normally included and determined in many of the MRM methods listed above along with insecticides and funguicides (Cervera et al, 2010).…”