Identification of polychlorinated biphenyls in two bald eagles by combined gas-liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry

Journal of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists
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Abstract

Polychlorinated biphenyls are widely used industrial compounds marketed in the United States under the trade name Aroclor. They have appeared in fish and wildlife tissues in this country and Europe. They are known to be toxic, but more importantly, their presence in samples along with the commonly occurring organochlorine pesticides complicates the analysis to a serious degree, making identification of pesticide residues by GLC without preliminary separation extremely unreliable. Residues of both polychlorinated biphenyls and organochloride pesticides were present in eagle carcasses. Many of the polychlorinated biphenyl components had retention times identical with those of certain organochlorine pesticide residues. Identification was accomplished by preliminary separations on thin layer plates followed by combined GLC- mass spectromtry.

Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Identification of polychlorinated biphenyls in two bald eagles by combined gas-liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry
Series title Journal of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists
DOI 10.1093/jaoac/53.2.251
Volume 53
Issue 2
Year Published 1970
Language English
Publisher Oxford University Press
Contributing office(s) Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
Description 11 p.
First page 251
Last page 261
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