. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Jul 30.

Published in final edited form as: Chromatographia. 2005;62(11-12):623–629. doi: 10.1365/s10337-005-0668-7

Table 4.

Recovery, precision, and limits of detection for the analysis of parent pesticides in meconium (N=24) spiked with pesticides at 6.25 μg g⁻¹

Parent Pesticide	Recovery (%)	CV(%)¹ Inter-assay	Limit of Detection (μg g⁻¹)
Propoxur	95.43	10.42	0.10
Diazinon	82.44	10.20	0.20
Lindane	87.73	9.32	1.56
Transfluthrin	105.17	6.62	0.39
Malathion	97.64	11.37	0.39
Chlorpyrifos	92.63	7.65	0.39
Bioallethrin	95.35	10.45	0.39
Pretilachlor	93.19	9.14	0.20
DDT	88.69	11.40	0.78
Cyfluthrin	109.25	8.50	0.39
Cypermethrin	105.10	7.51	0.78

Percent coefficient of variation, calculated as the standard deviation/mean recovery × 100