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. 2022 Jan 1;10(1):12. doi: 10.3390/toxics10010012

Table 1.

Method performance characteristics obtained in the verification study (REC—recovery (%); RSD—repeatability (%); LOQ—limit of quantification).

GC-MS/MS LC-MS/MS
PAHs PCBs PBDEs OCPs PFASs HBCD TBBPA
Spiking concentration (µg·kg−1) 2 5 5 2 0.25 2.5 2.5
Recovery % EtOAc + silica SPE 81–104 83–119 89–117 5–108 - -
QuEChERS + silica SPE 70–91 76–110 77–92 9–103 - -
QuEChERS + C18 59–86 74–110 76–101 65–114 88–130 49–57 73
QuEChERS + Z-Sep - - - - 85–116 65–116 102
QuEChERS + EMR-lipid 71–97 74–88 73–94 38–92 94–120 65–91 76
RSD % EtOAc + silica SPE 1–15 3–19 3–18 1–11 - -
QuEChERS + silica SPE 3–15 3–12 4–12 2–13 - -
QuEChERS + C18 4–12 6–13 5–10 3–19 1–9 2–5 2
QuEChERS + Z-Sep - - - - 1–10 1–2 1
QuEChERS + EMR-lipid 3–13 4–13 5–12 4–14 2–11 10–23 6
LOQ (µg·kg−1) EtOAc + silica SPE 0.05–0.25 0.10–0.50 0.50 0.1–0.5 - -
QuEChERS + silica SPE 0.05–0.25 0.10–0.50 0.50 0.1–0.5 - -
QuEChERS + C18 0.05–0.25 0.10–0.50 0.50 0.1–0.5 0.01–0.06 0.30 0.30
QuEChERS + Z-Sep - - - - 0.01–0.06 0.30 0.30
QuEChERS + EMR-lipid 0.10–0.50 0.10–0.50 0.25–0.50 0.50 0.02–0.50 1.50 1.50

Min–max. RSD %—relative standard deviation (n = 6).