Validation of a pressurized solvent extraction and GC-NCI-MS method for the low level determination of 40 polybrominated diphenyl ethers in mothers' milk

Chemosphere

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 70-75

  Lacorte, Silvia ^a   Guillamon, Míriam ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Breast milk; GC NCI MS; PBDE; Pressurized liquid extraction

Indexed keywords

CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; ETHERS; EXTRACTION; FLUIDS; FOOD PRODUCTS PLANTS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IONIZATION OF GASES; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; ORE TREATMENT; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PROJECTILES; RECOVERY; SOLAR RADIATION; SOLVENTS;

EFFICIENT METHODS; HUMAN MILK; METHOD DETECTION LIMITS (MDL); NEGATIVE CHEMICAL IONIZATION (NCI); POLY-BROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS (PBDE); PRESSURIZED LIQUID EXTRACTION (PLE); PRESSURIZED SOLVENT EXTRACTION (PSE); SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION (SPE) CARTRIDGES;

SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; MILK FAT; MILK PROTEIN; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER;

IONIZATION; MILK; PBDE; SOLVENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BREAST MILK; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; FEMALE; FLAME RETARDANTS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HUMANS; MILK, HUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 48149101959     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2008.05.021     Document Type: Article

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