In this work, a new, cheap, simple, fast, and low organic solvent consuming procedure is proposed for isolation, enrichment, and gas chromatographic determination of some phthalate esters in edible oils. The method is based on a combination of air-assisted liquid-liquid extraction and dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction followed by a drying step under N2 gas. Several experimental parameters affecting both extraction and preconcentration steps were investigated and optimized. Under the optimum conditions for the proposed method, wide linear ranges (0.05-800 μg/L) and low detection limits (0.007-0.023 μg/L) were observed. The ranges of enrichment factors and extraction recoveries were 68-340 and 14-68%, respectively. Eventually, the target analytes were successfully determined in different edible oils using the proposed method.
Keywords: air-assisted extraction; dispersive liquid-liquid extraction; gas chromatography; oil; phthalate esters.
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