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Quantitative Detection of Isofenphos-Methyl in Corns Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) with Chemometric Methods

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Residual pesticides in agricultural production are one of the major food safety concerns around the world. In this study, we investigated the amount of isofenphos-methyl in corns by using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) coupled with chemometric methods. The highest isofenphos-methyl peak at 1043 cm−1 was used to detect and quantify the amount of isofenphos-methyl spiked in methanol-water (1:1) solvent and corns. The limits of detection (LODs) of isofenphos-methyl in methanol-water solvent and corns were 0.01 μg/mL and 0.01 μg/g, respectively. Quantitative detection of isofenphos-methyl residues (0–5 μg/mL) was conducted using partial least squares (PLS) model. Based upon the results of leave-one-out cross-validation, isofenphos-methyl could be predicted by PLS (the correlation coefficient was 0.9964) with a low root mean square error of calibration (RMSEC=0.146). The developed SERS method provides a much simpler and more sensitive way to monitor isofenphos-methyl for safe production of corns, which can be extended to the other agricultural products.

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  1. College of Food Science and Technology, Hainan University, 58 Renmin Road, Haikou, 570228, China

    Dongli Liu, Yu Han, Liya Zhu, Wen Chen, Yi Zhou, Jian Chen, Zhiguo Jiang & Xianying Cao

  2. State Key Lab of Marine Resource Utilization in South China Sea, College of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Hainan University, 58 Renmin Road, Haikou, 570228, China

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This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31601426), the Natural Science Foundation of Hainan Province (No. 20163058, 20152018), and the Research Start-up Fund Project of Hainan University (No. kyqd1521).

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Liu, D., Han, Y., Zhu, L. et al. Quantitative Detection of Isofenphos-Methyl in Corns Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) with Chemometric Methods. Food Anal. Methods 10, 1202–1208 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12161-016-0677-1

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