Abstract:Six U.S.EPA priority pollutants of phthalic acid esters (PAEs) including di-methyl phthalate (DMP), di-ethyl phthalate (DEP), di-n-butyl phthalate (DnBP), butylbenyl phthalate (BBP), di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), and di-n-octyl phthalate (DnOP) in twenty seven soil samples from nine typical vegetable fields in areas of Guangzhou and Shenzhen, South China were determined by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS).Total contents of the six PAE compounds (ΣPAEs) in all soils ranged from 3.00 to 45.6...