“…A wide variety of techniques have been used to extract and purify pesticides from fruits and vegetables, including liquid-solid extraction (Cortes et al, 2006), solid-phase extraction (SPE) (Topuz, Ozhan, & Alpertunga, 2005), solid-phase microextraction (SPME) (Lambropoulou & Albanis, 2003), pressurised liquid extraction 0308-8146/$ -see front matter Ó 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.foodchem.2010.11.142 (PLE) (Blasco, Font, & Pico, 2005), gel permeation chromatography (GPC) (Goto et al, 2003), microwave assisted extraction (MAE) (Chen, Su, & Jen, 2002), matrix solid-phase dispersion (MSPD) (Liu, Hashi, Song, & Lin, 2005;Liu, Hu, Zhao, Xu, & Guan, 2005) and supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) (Norman & Panton, 2001). Nevertheless, sample preparation procedures can also be the most time and labor intensive, usually has multi-step procedures prone to loss of analytes.…”