EVS-EN 15741:2009

This European Standard specifies a gas chromatographic/mass spectrometric method for the determination of organochlorine pesticides (OC’s) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in animal feeding stuffs and oil. The method is applicable to animal feeding stuffs with a water content up to about 20 wt% and oil/fatty samples containing residues of one or more of the following OC’s and PCBs and some of their isomers and degradation products:  - Aldrin; - Dieldrin; -  Chlordane (= sum of Chlordane isomers and Oxychlordane); -  DDT (= sum of isomers op'-DDT, pp'-DDT, pp'-TDE (pp'-DDD), and pp'-DDE); -  Endosulfan (sum of α-/β-isomers and Endosulfan-sulphate); - Endrin;  -  Heptachlor (= sum of Heptachlor and β-Heptachlorepoxide); - Hexachlorobenzene (HCB); - Hexachlorocyclohexane isomers α-HCH (α-BHC), β-HCH (β-BHC), γ-HCH (γ-BHC or lindane); -  PCB 28, 52, 101, 138, 153 and 180 (“Indicator PCBs”) and PCB 198, 209.