Study on Soil Mobility of Two Neonicotinoid Insecticides

Table 1

Recoveries in the modified QuEChERS method at three concentrations.

Conc. in soil; g/g	Clay soil samples		Loam soil samples		Sand soil samples		Pumice
	CLO	TMX	CLO	TMX	CLO	TMX	CLO	TMX
0.02	69.4 ± 10.2	83.2 ± 6.3	61.3 ± 17.5	48.3 ± 17.3	91.8 ± 7.0	100.8 ± 5.9	92.4 ± 9.1	98.8 ± 7.4
0.10	97.1 ± 2.0	91.3 ± 2.6	90.1 ± 8.5	87.8 ± 2.8	100.5 ± 3.5	99.4 ± 1.2	101.4 ± 5.4	98.7 ± 4.1
1.0	100.6 ± 9.3	99.5 ± 8.5	99.7 ± 2.6	97.2 ± 3.0	100.7 ± 2.2	102.3 ± 1.1	103.1 ± 3.5	101.5 ± 3.6

; extractions were carried out in triplicate.