Abstract
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A simple, fast and economical method has been developed for the determination of fenpropathrin,
sumithrin, cyhalothrin, permethrin and deltamethrin in vegetable oils. The method is based on a
dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction (DLLME) technique after a preliminary liquid–liquid extraction
step, which is followed by a gas chromatography–flame ionization detection or gas chromatography–
mass spectrometry determination. Initially oil samples were partitioned in a dimethylformamide
(DMF)–hexane mixture and then DMF was removed and used as a disperser solvent in the following
DLLME procedure in which mL-level of 1,1,2-trichloroethane was used as an extraction solvent. The
detection limits ranged from 0.02 to 0.16 mg kg1 and the relative standard deviations (RSD %) for four
repeated experiments (C = 0.2 and 0.6 mg kg1 of each pesticide) varied from 2% to 13%, and enrichment
factors were in the ranges of 40–70. In p value of 0.9, neither significant matrix effects nor interferences
were observed by employing the proposed treatment in analysis of oil samples, and the extraction
recoveries obtained for the samples spiked with 0.2, 0.6 and 1.1 mg kg1 levels varied from 109 3% to
85 5%. The method was successfully applied in determination of target analytes in vegetable oils.
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