Automated thermal desorption-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry for screening of hazardous chemicals in cotton and cotton blend garments-analytical challenges.

ABSTRACT: The global production of textiles involves large amounts of health-hazardous chemicals, constituting possible health risks since residues usually remain in the finished garments. In the present study, a recently published ATD-GC/MS methodology for screening synthetic textiles is further extended to cotton and cotton blend materials. Different textile materials with a high content of cotton were found to exhibit large variations in adsorption strength for a number of chemicals frequently detected in textiles. This was shown to strongly influence the thermal desorption efficiency in ATD-GC/MS. By using absolute response factors from appropriate internal standards spiked directly onto the textile samples, the effects from these differences could be minimized. In this way, accurate quantificat

SUBMITTER: Astrom T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12367912 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature