[Determination of nine triazole pesticides in environmental waters using solid phase extraction and gas...

A method was developed for the simultaneous determination of 9 triazole pesticides in environmental water using C18 cartridge for the extraction and enrichment, NH2 cartridge for the clean-up and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry for the detection. The linear range of calibration curves for the 9 target pesticides was between 0.025 mg/L and 0.500 mg/L. The detection limits were in the range of 0.002 - 0.009 microg/L. The 9 target pesticides were measured in river water and sea water at 0.025 microg/L and 0.100 microg/L spiking levels, recoveries and relative standard deviations (RSD, n = 3) were 68.4% - 113.9% and 1.6% - 6.9% for river water and 70.3% - 115.2% and 0.8% - 8.2% for sea water, respectively. The method is simple, sensitive, selective and suitable for the qualification of pesticide multiresidue analysis. It has been successfully applied to the survey of 9 triazole pesticide residues in Jiulong River Estuary, Fujian.