Hollow fiber based liquid phase microextraction for the determination of organochlorine pesticides in ecological textiles by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry

Abstract

In this study, the hollow fiber-liquid phase microextraction (HF-LPME) coupled gas chromatograph/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) was firstly developed to determine 10 organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in ecological textiles. The present method can offer high separation efficiencies with minimal sample and solvent consumption. The extraction conditions were optimized, including the types of hollow fiber and organic solvent, the extraction time, the stirring and the salinity. Under the optimized conditions, the linear ranges of OCPs in cotton, terylene and fur samples were 5–1000ng/g, 10–1000ng/g and 10–800ng/g, respectively, and the detection limit of the three samples were 0.07–2.30ng/g, 0.89–1.66ng/g and 0.06–1.04ng/g, respectively. The optimized method was then successfully used to determine the OCPs in 3 kinds of spiked real samples, including cotton, terylene and fur. The good recoveries and RSDs of the quantification in real textile samples were obtained and the results were confirmed by the traditional liquid extraction method (GB/T 18412-2006). This study proved that the HF-LPME method, which was simple, low-cost and virtually solvent-free, was reliable for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of the harmful OCP residues in ecological textiles.