Employing Solid Phase Microextraction as Extraction Tool for Pesticide Residues in Traditional Medicinal Plants

HS-SPME was optimised using blank plant sample for analysis of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) of varying polarities in selected medicinal plants obtained from northern part of Botswana, where OCPs such as DDT and endosulfan have been historically applied to control disease carrying vectors (mosqui...

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Main Authors: Thamani T. Gondo, Veronica C. Obuseng, Lesego C. Mmualefe, Harriet Okatch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2016-01-01
Series:Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/2890219