J. Pablo Lamas

TL;DR: The study evidences the high content of toxic chemicals in these recycled materials, especially those targeting play areas and other facilities for children, and should be a matter of regulatory concern.

TL;DR: A solvent-free and simple method based on headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME) was developed in order to determine simultaneously 36 common pesticides and breakdown products in soil and showed that temperature and fiber coating were the most significant variables affecting extraction efficiency.

TL;DR: Solid-phase microextraction coupled to gas chromatography-mass spectrometry has been applied to the extraction of five SSRIs--venlafaxine, fluvoxamine, fluoxetine, citalopram and sertraline--from water samples, showing good linearity and precision.

TL;DR: The method was applied to real urine samples from different patients being treated with some of these pharmaceuticals and revealed the absence of matrix effect and the possibility of quantifying SSRI in urine samples by external water calibration.

TL;DR: A simple and rapid method based on solid-phase microextraction (SPME) technique followed by gas chromatography with microelectron-capture detection (GC-microECD) was developed for the simultaneous determination of more than 30 pesticides (pyrethroids and organochlorinated among others) in milk, the first application of SPME for the determination of pyrethroid pesticides in milk.