Dioxins and PCBs

The laboratory provides analytical services on a routine basis and accepts individual samples as well as samples from larger research projects. Written requests and contacts:
Environmental pollutant analysis

See also Pollutants from small serum volume: 
Pollutants from small serum volume (micro POP)

Accreditation

• The method is accredited with a flexible scope for all matrices and analytes listed below

Number of samples

• Also for single samples

Matrices

• Serum, breast milk, placenta and other human samples
• Fish and other animal samples
• Food and feed
• Soil, sediment and other environmental samples suitable for routine analysis
• Water
• Other samples containing fat or oil

Method description

• After matrix-specific pretreatment, analytes are extracted and the extract is cleaned with a silica and aluminium oxide column. The analytes are separated with an active carbon column. The quantification is performed with a gas chromatograph coupled to a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer (GC-MS/MS).

Limit of quantification

• Depends on the sample amount and matrix
• For example PCDDs, PCDFs and non-ortho-PCBs from tissues: 0.1–5.0 pg/g fat 
• For example other PCBs in tissues: 10–100 pg/g fat

Sampling instructions

• Sample container: glass, polyethene (PE) or aluminium foil
• Minimum sample amount: liquids 1000 ml, serum and breast milk 100 ml, soil and sediment 50 g, food and feed 1000 g (EU N:o 252/2012), fat 10 g
• Maximum storage time (water, soil and sediment): +7°C for 7 days, -18°C for at least 20 years, -70°C or in liquid nitrogen indefinitely
• Maximum storage time (other samples): +7°C for 3 days, -18°C for at least 20 years, -70°C or in liquid nitrogen indefinitely
• See also the general sampling instructions that apply to all analyses:
  Environmental pollutant analysis

Dispatch

• Frozen in cold package

Analytes

Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs)

• 2,3,7,8-TCDD
• 1,2,3,7,8-PeCDD
• 1,2,3,4,7,8-HxCDD
• 1,2,3,6,7,8-HxCDD
• 1,2,3,7,8,9-HxCDD
• 1,2,3,4,6,7,8-HpCDD
• OCDD

Polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs)

• 2,3,7,8-TCDF
• 1,2,3,7,8-PeCDF
• 2,3,4,7,8-PeCDF
• 1,2,3,4,7,8-HxCDF
• 1,2,3,6,7,8-HxCDF
• 1,2,3,7,8,9-HxCDF
• 2,3,4,6,7,8-HxCDF
• 1,2,3,4,6,7,8-HpCDF
• 1,2,3,4,7,8,9-HpCDF
• OCDF

Non-ortho polychlorinated biphenyls (Non-ortho-PCBs)

• PCB 77
• PCB 81
• PCB 126
• PCB 169

Other polychlorinated biphenyls (Other PCBs)

• PCB 18
• PCB 28
• PCB 33
• PCB 47
• PCB 49
• PCB 52
• PCB 66
• PCB 74
• PCB 99
• PCB 101
• PCB 105
• PCB 110
• PCB 114
• PCB 118
• PCB 123
• PCB 128
• PCB 138
• PCB 141
• PCB 153
• PCB 156
• PCB 157
• PCB 167
• PCB 170
• PCB 180
• PCB 183
• PCB 187
• PCB 189
• PCB 194
• PCB 206
• PCB 209