Abstract

VALENCIA, Eliana M  and  GUERRERO, Jairo A. GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY CLEAN-UP IN DETERMINATION OF N-METHYLCARBAMATES RESIDUES IN STRAWBERRY. Rev.Colomb.Quim. [online]. 2008, vol.37, n.2, pp.161-172. ISSN 0120-2804.

A multiresidue method for analysis of five N-methylcarbamate pesticides (N-MCs) and four of their metabolites in strawberry was validated and implemented. Pesticide residues were extracted from strawberry samples with ethyl acetate and the extracts were cleaned by gel permeation chromatography (GPC) on 3% crosslinked styrene divinylbenzene polymer packed in a glass column of 20 cm x 10mmi.d. and ethyl acetate ciclohexane (1:1) as solvent elution at a flow rate of 1 mL/min before injection in the chromatograph. The first 7 mL were discarded to remove matrix interferents. The fraction between 7 and 22 mL where the N-methylcarbamate pesticides and their metabolites are present, was collected. Final determination was carried out by HPLC with post-column derivatization and fluorescence detection in a C-18 column of 25 cm x 4.6 mm i.d, 5 [1]m with a gradient of acetonitrile-methanol-water. The clean up procedure demonstrated that the method is specific, selective, linear over a concentration range from 0.11 to 2.31 mg/kg, sensible enough with limit of detection and quantification between from 0.011 to 0.021 mg/kg and from 0.021 to 0.075 mg/kg respectively, as well as precise and accurate with recoveries between 80 - 110%. The validated method was used to determine N-MCs residues and their metabolites in strawberry samples in three Cundinamarca counties and one Cauca county, Colombia. Residues were detected in one Cauca county sample

Keywords : N-methylcarbamates; strawberry; gel permeation chromatography; HPLC.

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