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ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 391, Issue 1, Pages 345-352Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-008-2007-y
Keywords
triazine; phenylurea; herbicide; liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry; sewage sludge
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A multiresidue method has been developed to analyze atrazine (ATZ), diuron (DIU), and their major degradation products, desethylatrazine (DEA), desisopropylatrazine (DIA), and dichlorophenylmethylurea in sewage sludge. Liquid chromatography coupled to electrospray tandem mass spectrometry (LC-ESI-MS-MS) allowed, in the multiple-reaction monitoring mode, the simultaneous analysis of these pesticides in only one run after their extraction with ethyl acetate-dichloromethane 90: 10 (v/v) and a cleanup on a Florisil column. Stable isotopically labeled ATZ and DIU were used as internal standards to overcome matrix effects during the pesticide quantification. Using fortified samples, the method gave rise to 86-115% as mean recovery values depending on the analyte. Limits of detection (LODs) and of quantification (LOQs) ranging from 0.3 (DIA) to 1.5 (DEA) mu g kg(-1) dw and from 0.4 (DIA) to 2.0 (DEA) mu g kg(-1) dw, respectively, were sufficient to achieve the monitoring of these molecules in sludge from wastewater treatment plants of the Ile-de-France region.
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