Quantification of low levels of organochlorine pesticides using small volumes (?100 ?l) of plasma of wild birds through gas chromatography negative chemical ionization mass spectrometry

Quantification of low levels of organochlorine pesticides using small volumes (?100 ?l) of plasma of wild birds through gas chromatography negative chemical ionization mass spectrometry [1]

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A solid phase extraction and gas chromatography with negative chemical ionization mass spectrometry in scan mode (GC-NCI-MS) method was developed to identify and quantify for the first time low levels of organochlorine pesticides (OCs) in plasma samples of less than 100 ?l from wild birds. The method detection limits ranged from 0.012 to 0.102 pg/?l and the method reporting limit from 0.036 to 0.307 pg/?l for ?, ?, ? and ?-hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH), heptachlor, aldrin, heptachlor epoxide, endosulfan I, 1,1-dichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethylene (p,p?-DDE), dieldrin, endrin, endosulfan-II, endrin-aldehyde and endosulfan-sulfate. Pesticide levels in small serum samples from individual Falco sparverius, Sturnella neglecta, Mimus polyglottos and Columbina passerina were quantified. Concentrations ranged from not detected (n/d) to 204.9 pg/?l for some OC pesticides. All levels in the food web in and around cultivated areas showed the presence of pesticides notwithstanding the small areas for agriculture existing in the desert of Baja California peninsula.

Publication Date:

30/06/2007

Author(s): Laura B. Rivera-Rodrguez [2], Ricardo Rodrguez-Estrella [3], James Jackson Ellington & et al [4]

Source: Environmental Pollution [5]

Vol:

148

Issue:

pp:

654

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