Simultaneous Determination of Four Herbicide and Pesticide Residues in Chinese Green Tea Using QuEChERS Purification Procedure and UPLC-MS/MS Analysis

Su Fang Wang; Shou Jie Zhang; Chun Hong Dong; Guo Qing Wang; Jun Feng Guo; Wu Yong Sun

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.634-638.1586

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Simultaneous Determination of Four Herbicide and Pesticide Residues in Chinese Green Tea Using QuEChERS Purification Procedure and UPLC-MS/MS Analysis

Abstract:

A method for simultaneous determination of residuals of four herbicides and pesticides, simazine, carboxin, diflubenzuron and rotenone, in Chinese green tea was developed. In the proposed method, the tea powder was placed in a centrifuge tube with a plug, extracted in saturated aqueous sodium chloride solution and acetonitrile, agitated using vortex oscillator, and then centrifuged 5 min at 4000 rpm. The supernatant solution was purified by primary secondary amine (PSA) sorbent, C18 power, and graphitized carbon black powder, respectively. Then the purified extracts were dissolved with acetonitrile:0.1% formic acid aqueous solution (40:60, V/V) and agitated, filtered using a syringe with 0.22 μm nylon filter prior to UPLC-MS/MS analysis. The UPLC analysis was performed on an ACQUITY UPLC® HSS T3 column (2.1 mm×100 mm, 1.8 µm), using acetonitrile-0.1% formic acid as mobile phase with the flow rate as 0.3 mL•min^-1. Injection volume was 10 µL. Positive ionization mode was applied, and the ions were monitored in the multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) mode with curtain gas 0.069 MPa, collision gas 0.052 MPa, ESI ion spray voltage 5000 V, temperature 550 °C, nebulizer gas 0.24 MPa, and turbo gas 0.28 MPa. The limit of detection (LOD) and limit of quantitation (LOQ) of the proposed method are 1 μg•kg^-1 and 5 μg•kg^-1, respectively. The average recoveries of the four pesticides at 10, 20, and 50 µg•kg^-1 spiking levels range from 77.4% to 95.3%. The ^{Supers^{Superscript text}cript text}relative standard deviation (RSD) (n=6) range form 11.83% to 4.52%.