“…However, because the Photospray source was new, it produced a substantial amount of ions from a variety of phthalates (i.e., dibutyl-, dioctyl-, and nonyl, decylphthalates) commonly used as plasticizers. Many of the trends observed in the critical ratios for APCI-MS were observed for APPI-MS, but the range of values of [MH] þ /S[DAG] þ was larger for APPI-MS (Byrdwell, 2015b). …”