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Environmental solid matrices — Determination of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) by gas chromatography - mass selective detection (GC-MS) or electron-capture detection (GC-ECD)
Committee:
Environment
Sector:
Environment
Available Standards
Original Standard
إنجليزي (English)
50
Page
2025
International Classification for Standards (ICS)
| Code | Classification |
|---|---|
| 13.080.10 | Chemical characteristics of soils |
Adopted Standards
| Standards / Amendment / Corrigendum | |
|---|---|
| 1 | ISO 18475:2023 |
Replacement Sequence
| Replaces |
|---|
| PS 3138-2015 |
| PS 3150-2015 |
Scope
This document specifies methods for quantitative determination of seven selected polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB28, PCB52, PCB101, PCB118, PCB138, PCB153 and PCB180) in soil, sludge, sediment, treated biowaste, and waste using GC-MS and GC-ECD (see Table 2).
Table 2 — Target analytes of this document
| Target analyte | CAS-RN a | |
|---|---|---|
| PCB28 | 2,4,4'-trichlorobiphenyl | 7012–37–5 |
| PCB52 | 2,2',5,5'-tetrachlorobiphenyl | 35693–99–3 |
| PCB101 | 2,2',4,5,5'-pentachlorobiphenyl | 37680–73–2 |
| PCB118 | 2,3',4,4',5-pentachlorobiphenyl | 31508–00–6 |
| PCB138 | 2,2',3,4,4',5'-hexachlorobiphenyl | 35065–28–2 |
| PCB153 | 2,2',4,4',5,5'-hexachlorobiphenyl | 35065–27–1 |
| PCB180 | 2,2',3,4,4',5,5'-heptachlorobiphenyl | 35065–29–3 |
a CAS-RN Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Number.
The limit of detection depends on the determinants, the equipment used, the quality of chemicals used for the extraction of the sample and the clean-up of the extract.
Under the conditions specified in this document, lower limit of application from 1 μg/kg (expressed as dry matter) for soils, sludge and biowaste to 10 μg/kg (expressed as dry matter) for solid waste can be achieved. For some specific samples the limit of 10 μg/kg cannot be reached.
Sludge, waste and treated biowaste may differ in properties, as well as in the expected contamination levels of PCB and presence of interfering substances. These differences make it impossible to describe one general procedure. This document contains decision tables based on the properties of the sample and the extraction and clean-up procedure to be used.
NOTE The analysis of PCB in insulating liquids, petroleum products, used oils and aqueous samples is referred to in EN 61619, EN 12766-1 and ISO 6468 respectively.
The method can be applied to the analysis of other PCB congeners not specified in the scope, provided suitability is proven by proper in-house validation experiments.