A gas-liquid chromatographic method was developed capable of determining octa-and nonachloro-2-phenoxyphenols in chicken liver or muscle at 0.25 ppb and fat at 2.5 ppb. The method involves extraction with acidified acetone:hexane, cleanup with concentrated H2SO4and Florisil column chromatography, methylation with diazomethane, and quantitation by capillary column gas-liquid chromatography with electron capture detection. Fortification of liver and muscle at 0.25 or 0.5 ppb and fat at 2.5 or 5.0 ppb and subsequent analysis yielded recoveries averaging 91 for octa-and 97 for nonachlorophenoxyphenol.
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