A fast method of analysis for 20 representative pesticides was developed using low-pressure gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (LP-GC-MS). No special techniques for injection or detection with a common quadrupole GC-MS instrument were required to use this approach. The LP-GC-MS approach used an analytical column of 10 m x 0.53 mm I.D., 1 microm film thickness coupled with a 3 m x 0.15 mm I.D....

There is currently great environmental interest in chlorinated phenol derivatives due to their high toxicity and wide industrial use. In response, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has compiled a list of eleven phenols that are considered to be priority pollutants. In 1982, the EEC issued its own pollutant list which includes a large number of polychlorophenols, and established a maximu...

Sample Types LC/MS systems facilitate the analysis of samples that traditionally have been difficult to analyze. Despite the power and usefulness of gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS), many compounds are impossible to analyze with GC/MS. LC/MS significantly expands the effective analytical use of mass spectrometry to a much larger number of organic compounds. Gas chromatography and GC...

This paper presents the development, optimization and validation of a methodology to determine nine key steroid hormones (viz. pregnenolone, progesterone, dehydroepiandrosterone, androstenedione, testosterone, dihydrotestosterone, estrone, 17α-estradiol and 17β-estradiol) expressed in the steroidogenesis in biological fluids. The analytical method allows for the determination of steroid hormone...