TY - JOUR A1 - Lima, D.L.D. A1 - Silva, C.P. A1 - Schneider, Rudolf A1 - Esteves, V.I. T1 - Development of an ELISA procedure to study sorption of atrazine onto a sewage sludge-amended luvisol soil JF - Talanta N2 - Pesticides may contaminate ground and surface waters and one of the major factors governing this property is soil sorption. Sorption can be assessed by batch equilibrium technique which produces lots of extracts with high dissolved organic carbon concentration in which the pesticide concentration has to be determined. We developed an ELISA procedure to analyse atrazine based on polyclonal antibodies (C193) for which tracer structure and dilutions of immunochemical reagents were adapted to fit the purpose. After a 1000-fold dilution (or after an SPE clean-up procedure) extracts of a sewage-sludge amended luvisol (used as an example application of the methodology developed) could be reliably analysed. The Freundlich model is able to describe adsorption for this system (r² = 0.977) delivering a distribution coefficient KF of 1.6 ± 0.2 (mg kg-1) (mg L-1)-N and an isotherm nonlinearity factor N of 0.70 ± 0.09. KW - ELISA KW - Atrazine KW - Sorption PY - 2011 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.talanta.2011.06.024 SN - 0039-9140 VL - 85 IS - 3 SP - 1494 EP - 1499 PB - Elsevier B.V. CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-24305 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -