| Abstract: | A spectrophotometric method has been developed for the determination of ziram (zinc bis(dimethyldithiocarbamate)) and zineb (zinc ethylenebisdithiocarbarnate) by converting these into a zinc-4-(2-pyridylazo)resorcinol complex, which is dissolved in acetone and water and the absorbance measured at 490 nm against a reagent blank. Beer's law is obeyed over the concentration ranges 0.025-1.25 and 0.025-1.5 mg litre?1 for ziram and zineb respectively in the final solution. The method is sensitive and can be used for the direct determination of ziram and zineb in commercial formulations, grains (rice and wheat) and synthetic mixtures (in the presence of various other dithiocarbamates). The limit of determination of ziram and zineb from foodstuffs in 0.2 mg kg ?1. |
