Towards on-line SEC-GC of pesticide residues? The problem of tailing triglyceride peaks

SEC is used for clean-up of food extracts obtained for analysis of pesticide residues primarily to remove high molecular weight material, among which fat may be present at the largest concentrations. The triglyceride peak, which is usually very large, is eluted before the components of interest. The problem described in this paper deals with the tail of the triglyceride peak: this may intrude into the fraction containing the pesticides and contaminate the GC.