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Water Science & Technology Vol 66 No 5 pp 965–975 © IWA Publishing 2012 doi:10.2166/wst.2012.263

Methods for monitoring of pesticide residues in water: current status and recent trends

Tatjana Vasiljević, Nikolina Dujaković, Marina Radišić, Svetlana Grujić, Mila Laušević and Milan Dimkić

Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, Karnegijeva 4, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia E-mail: tanjav@tmf.bg.ac.rs
Jaroslav Černi Institute for the Development of Water Resources, Jaroslava Černog 80, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia


ABSTRACT

An overview of analytical methods currently used for the determination of pesticide residues in water samples is presented. As liquid chromatography and gas chromatography, coupled to mass spectrometry, are considered to be the most appropriate techniques for determination of pesticides in environmental waters, the most recent developments and applications in this field are discussed, as well as the extraction procedures employed for analyte isolation and preconcentration.

Keywords: gas chromatography–mass spectrometry; liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry; microextraction techniques; pesticides; solid-phase extraction


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