Non fatty foods - Determination of benzimidazole fungicides carbendazim, thiabendazol and benomyl (as carbendazim) - Part 2: HPLC method with gel permeation chromatography clean up
This document specifies a high performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of the benzimidazole fungicides carbendazim and thiabendazole in fruits, vegetables and processed products. When benomyl is present, it is completely degraded to carbendazim and is also determined as carbendazim. Thiophanate-methyl is partly decomposed and therefore not quantitatively determined. The method has been validated for carbendazim and thiabendazole in an interlaboratory test with homogenates of apples, French beans, mushrooms, lemons and fruit based infant food.