Pesticide Protocols

Abstract

Pesticide Protocols contains methods for the detection of specific compounds or their metabolites useful in biological monitoring and in studies of exposure via food, water, air, and skin. Liquid and gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry detection, and other classic detectors, are the most widely used techniques, although such others as capillary electrophoresis and immunochemical or radioimmunoassay methods are also proposed. Chapters cover the varied array of analytical techniques applied to the analysis of several families of pesticides. The extractions and cleanup procedures have been focused in order to use more automated and miniaturized methods, including solid-phase extraction, solid-phase micro-extraction, microwaveassisted extraction, or on-line tandem liquid chromatography (LC/LC) trace enrichment, among others.