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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2016 Mar 17;23(12):12392–12399. doi: 10.1007/s11356-016-6453-3

Table 2.

Analytical parameters

Pesticide method PAH method
Extraction Surrogate Standards tetrachloro-meta-xylene, PCB-209 phenanthrene-d10, fluoranthene-d10, chrysene-d12, benzo[a]pyrene-d12
Internal Standard 4,4′-dibromooctafluorobiphenyl perylene-d12
Gas Chromatograph 6890N (Agilent) 7890A (Agilent)
Detector(s) 2x micro-electron capture detectors 5975C mass spectrometer (Agilent)
Column(s) DB-XLB and DB-17MS (both Agilent) DB5-MS (Agilent)
No. of calibration points (R2>0.98) 5 6 or 7
Temperature program 110°C, 1 min.
4°C/min to 300°C, hold 10 min.		 60°C, 1 min.
30°C/min. to 180°C
3°C/min. to 230°C, hold 5 min.
28°C/min. to 280°C, hold 10 min.
8°C/min. to 310°C
16°C/min. to 350°C, hold 5 min.
Reference Anderson et al. (2014) Allan et al. (2012)