Multiresidue Pesticide Analysis in Food using GC/MS/MS and LC/MS/MS in Accordance with the SANTE 11312/2021 Guideline

Agilent Webinar Series for Food Testing Workflows: Part 4

Pesticides play an important role in the agriculture and food industries to improve crop yield and food production. However, the quantity of pesticide residue remaining in or on commodities are tightly controlled to avoid contamination of the food chain and the environment. Therefore, regulatory agencies have set maximum residue levels (MRLs) for hundreds of pesticides and their metabolites.

To check whether foods comply with these legal requirements, different analytical techniques are necessary to detect all pesticides that could be mandated for analysis. This webinar describes a comprehensive end-to-end workflow for the targeted quantitation of more than 1000 pesticides in tomato using GC/MS/MS and LC/MS/MS techniques with a common QuEChERS sample extraction protocol without further clean-up. The workflow performance was successfully evaluated according to the SANTE 11312/2021 guideline based on method sensitivity, limit of quantification, linearity, recovery, and repeatability using matrix-matched calibration standards for over 1000 pesticides.

Presenter: Laurent Pascaud (Spécialiste Produits GC & GC/MS, Agilent)

After 10 years of experience in the French Anti-Doping Agency, Laurent Pascaud joined Agilent Technologies in 2007.

He has now over 15 years of expertise in analytical development, first as an applications engineer, then as a GC and GCMS product specialist in various chemical markets.