Skip to main content

Table 5 Presence of radioactivity in the different extracts of the sequential extraction (applied radioactivity 4.2 kBq 14C-cypermethrin per g soil dm corresponding to 120 mg cypermethrin per kg soil dm)

From: Certainties and uncertainties in accessing toxicity of non-extractable residues (NER) in soil

Soil

0.01 m CaCl2

Tenax20

Tenax1 week

Acetonitrile shaking

PLE

NER

Total recovery

Water

Tenax

Water

Tenax

Test start

 01-A

0.1%

0.3%

41.5%

0.4%

22.5%

17.6%

1.0%

0.3%

83.7

 02-A

0.2%

0.3%

80.6%

0.1%

5.9%

4.1%

0.8%

0.3%

92.3

 03-G

0.2%

0.5%

42.0%

0.3%

26.4%

21.3%

2.9%

0.5%

94.1

T = 6 months

 01-A

0.8%

0.0%

15.6%

0.7%

26.5%

30.7%

1.2%

1.4%

76.9%

 02-A

0.6%

0.0%

16.5%

0.8%

34.0%

34.7%

2.7%

2.3%

91.6%

 03-G

2.0%

0.4%

13.7%

0.5%

17.5%

31.8%

5.4%

6.4%

77.7%