“…In recent years, various analytical methods have been reported for the determination of thiamethoxam or clothianidin in agro‐products and environmental samples, including high‐performance liquid chromatography (HPLC; Vichapong, Burakham, & Srijaranai, , ; Farouk, Hussein, & El‐Azab, ), liquid chromatography with mass spectrometry (LC–MS; Yáñez, Bernal, Nozal, Martín, & Bernal, ), liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS; Lee et al, ; Campillo, Viñas, Férez‐Melgarejo, & Hernández‐Córdoba, ; Yamamuro, Ohta, Aoyama, & Watanabe, ; Zheng et al, ; Hao, Noestheden, Zhao, & Morse, ) and ultra‐performance liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC–MS/MS; Xiao, Yang, Li, Fan, & Ding, ; Zhang et al, ; David, Botías, Abdul‐Sada, Goulson, & Hill, ; Sadaria, Supowit, & Halden, ). For instance, Farouk et al () developed an HPLC method to determine thiamethoxam and clothianidin in cucumbers and soil with a quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged and safe (QuEChERS) pretreatment procedure, with average recoveries between 99.07% and 101.45%.…”