Ultrasound-Assisted Extraction Followed by Solid-Phase Extraction Followed by Dispersive Liquid-Liquid Microextraction for the Sensitive Determination of Diazinon and Chlorpyrifos in Rice

Selectivity of solid-phase extraction (SPE) was combined with the concentration power of dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction (DLLME) to obtain a sensitive, low solvent consumption method for high-performance liquid chromatography determination of diazinon and chlorpyrifos in rice. In this method, rice samples were extracted by ultrasound-assisted extraction followed by SPE. Then, the SPE eluent was used as a disperser solvent in the next dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction step for further purification and enrichment of diazinon and chlorpyrifos. Under the optimal conditions, the linear range was from 5.0 to 250 mu g kg(-1) for diazinon and from 2.5 to 250 mu g kg(-1) for chlorpyrifos. Limits of detection of diazinon and chlorpyrifos were 1.5 and 0.7 mu g kg(-1), respectively. Limits of quantitation of diazinon and chlorpyrifos were 5.5 and 3.0 mu g kg(-1), respectively. The precisions and recoveries also were investigated by spiking 10 mu g kg(-1) concentration in rice. The recoveries obtained were over 90 % with relative standard deviation (RSD%) below 9.0 %. The new approach was utilized to successfully detect trace amounts of diazinon and chlorpyrifos in different Iranian rice samples.