Table 3.

Trueness as % recovery and precision as % RSD of repeatability (within-laboratory reproducibility) of target pesticides in tomato matrix spiked at 5, 10, and 40 µg/kg.

S. N.	Pesticide	Trueness			Precision as repeatability (within-laboratory reproducibility)
		5 (µg/kg) (n = 6)	10 (µg/kg) (n = 6)	40 (µg/kg) (n = 6)	5 (µg/kg)	10 (µg/kg)	40 (µg/kg)
		% recovery			% RSD
1	3-Hydroxycarbofuran	93	94	86	4.7 (8.2)	3.2 (4.8)	2.3 (1.7)
2	Acephate	81	80	81	2.4 (8.5)	2.2 (6.4)	1.0 (2.8)
3	Alachlor	89	90	87	3.5 (14.5)	3.6 (5.0)	1.2 (1.6)
4	Aldicarb sulfone	89	90	87	3.8 (8.3)	3.3 (4.9)	1.7 (1.6)
5	Aldicarb sulfoxide	87	88	83	3.6 (5.9)	3.5 (3.5)	1.4 (1.5)
6	Aldicarb	87	83	83	2.0 (8.7)	2.2 (6.5)	1.2 (2.2)
7	Carbaryl	∗	77	83	∗	6.1 (11.7)	5.0 (3.7)
8	Carbendazim	91	86	92	3.1 (9.9)	2.1 (8.3)	1.1 (2.0)
9	Carbofuran	87	85	79	2.5 (12.6)	2.8 (7.5)	2.4 (3.7)
10	Cyprodinil	90	85	83	5.6 (5.5)	3.9 (4.0)	1.1 (1.6)
11	Dimethoate	90	88	88	4.5 (7.0)	2.3 (4.8)	0.9 (1.3)
12	Ethoprophos	91	90	90	2.4 (7.4)	3.0 (4.1)	1.0 (1.2)
13	Imazalil	90	82	78	4.3 (13.3)	4.3 (8.6)	2.9 (4.6)
14	Imidacloprid	104	120	110	5.0 (6.9)	4.9 (4.1)	1.3 (4.6)
15	Kresoxim-methyl	90	90	86	2.5 (6.2)	3.4 (2.8)	1.0 (1.8)
16	Metalaxyl	91	90	89	2.9 (5.6)	2.4 (3.2)	1.2 (1.1)
17	Methidathion	90	93	88	3.2 (6.8)	4.8 (3.6)	1.8 (1.8)
18	Methiocarb	91	93	86	2.1 (4.7)	3.5 (3.1)	1.4 (1.6)
19	Methomyl	90	92	87	5.3 (6.7)	4.0 (4.7)	1.2 (1.9)
20	Monocrotophos	87	90	88	2.9 (6.8)	2.9 (3.2)	1.2 (1.1)
21	Oxamyl	89	93	86	3.9 (7.0)	3.7 (3.2)	1.7 (1.5)
22	Penconazole	88	87	87	3.0 (6.4)	3.2 (4.2)	0.7 (1.4)
23	Propargite	87	83	86	3.1 (5.4)	2.5 (4.5)	1.4 (2.0)
24	Propoxur	90	90	84	1.9 (4.7)	2.1 (1.8)	1.1 (1.3)
25	Thiabendazole	93	88	88	2.4 (6.5)	2.9 (5.1)	1.4 (1.3)
26	Trichlorfon	106	117	113	3.4 (8.2)	4.1 (4.5)	0.8 (3.4)

^∗ For carbaryl, a recovery experiment was performed at the 10 µg/kg level.