Abstract
A multiresldue technique Is presented for the extraction and quantitative gas chromatographic screening of 9 insecticides (lindane, heptachlor, aldrin, heptachlor epoxide, p.p'-DDE, dleldrln, endrin, p,p'-TDE, and p.p'-DDT) as residues In beef fat. Beef fat was fortified by adding the 9 Insecticides, plus dlbutyl chlorendate as Internal standard, to 0.5 g portions of beef fat and blending with 2 g C18 (octadecylsllyl)-derivatlzed silica. The C18/fat matrix blend was fashioned into a column by adding the blend to a 10 mL syringe barrel containing 2 g activated Florisll. The insecticides were then eluted from the column with 8 mL acetonitrile, and a 2μL portion of the acetonitrile eluate was then directly analyzed by gas chromatography with electron capture detection. Unfortified blank controls were treated similarly. The acetonitrile eluate contained all of the pesticide analytes (31.25-500 ng/g) and was free of interfering co-extractants. Correlation coefficients for the 9 extracted pesticide standard curves (linear regression analysis, n = 5) ranged from 0.9969 (±0.0021) to 0.9999 (±0.0001). Average relative percentage recoveries (85 ± 3.4% to 102 ± 5.0%, n = 25 for each insecticide), inter-assay variability (6.0 ± 1.0% to 14.0 ± 6.7%, n = 25 for each insecticide), and intra-assay variability (2.5-5.1%, n = 5 for each insecticide) indicated that the methodology is acceptable for the extraction, determination, and screening of these residues in beef fat.