“…Recently, the use of GC coupled to mass spectrometry (MS) has been considered a suitable approach to improve selectivity and sensitivity (Grimalt et al ., 2006) ; it is thermally labile and decomposes when analyzed by GC using a heated injector (Ngoh and Cullison, 1996) . Analysis of trichlorfon residues has been reported using gas chromatography coupled with FID (Talebpour et al ., 2006) ; FPD (Iwata et al ., 1979 ; Sheets et al ., 1982 ; Maitlen and Halfhill, 1985) ; NPD (Schultz et al ., 1971 ; Ngoh and Cullison, 1996) and mass spectrometry (Aroa et al ., 2002 ; Brito et al ., 2002 ; Talebpour et al ., 2006) , and by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) (Arao et al ., 2002 ; Talebpour et al ., 2006 ; Zhu et al ., 2008) .…”