Screening method for the determination at parts per trillion levels of pesticide residues in vegetables combining solid-phase microextraction and gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry

Analytical Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 2886-2914

  Aguado, S Cortés ^a   Sanchez Morito N ^a   Frenich, A Garrido ^b   Vidal, J L Martínez ^b   Arrebola, F J ^b  

^a Laboratory of Pesticide Residues LAB   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gas chromatography tandem mass spectrometry; Pesticide residues; Solid phase microextraction; Vegetable analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 35649011479     PISSN: 00032719     EISSN: 1532236X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00032710701603934     Document Type: Article

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