Food safety and perceived health risks from residual agricultural chemicals are ongoing public concerns, and these chemicals are under increasing regulatory scrutiny. The polar pesticides are one category, which include ionic post-emergent and desiccant herbicides, fungicides, growth-regulating chemicals, and the resultant metabolites of those compounds (Table 1 in the attached application note).
We present an IC-MS/MS based method for high-throughput screening and quantitation of polar pesticide residues and their metabolites in water matrices below the current legislative requirements. Direct injection eliminates long and laborious sample preparation and makes the method more sensitive and faster than traditionally used LC-MS/MS methods, which utilize FMOC derivatization. This method can increase cost savings, provide more reliable results, and increase sample throughput.
We present a reliable and cost-effective IC-MS/MS multi-residue method for high-throughput screening and quantitation of polar pesticide residues and their metabolites in food matrices below the current legislative requirements. In contrast to methods described in the literature, sample preparation is simplified and the use of ion chromatography speeds up the separation.
