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CHROMATOGRAPHY

Analysis of Fatty Acid Ethyl Esters in Hair by Headspace Solid-Phase Microextraction (HS-SPME) and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS)

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Pages 2962-2977 | Received 01 Dec 2008, Accepted 03 Aug 2009, Published online: 10 Nov 2009

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