Abstract

A gas-liquid chromatographic (GLC) method has been developed for the determination of captan (N-trichloromethylthio-4-cyclohexene-1,2-dicarboximide) and 2 metabolites, tetra-hydrophthalimide (THPI) and tetrahydrophthalamic acid (THPMA), in milk and meat. The sample is extracted with ethyl acetate and is cleaned up by acetonitrile partition and silica gel chromatography where captan, THPI, and THPMA are separated. Captan is directly determined by GLC. THPI and THPMA are separately derivatized in an acetone solution of pentafluorobenzyl bromide. The resultant derivatives are purified separately on an Al2O3 column and quantitated by GLC, using an electron capture detector. Recoveries from milk samples fortified at 0.02-10 ppm ranged from 71 to 102%; recoveries from meat samples fortified at 0.04-10 ppm ranged from 75 to 99%.

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