The invention discloses a method for detecting persistent organic pollutants in marine sediments, and belongs to the technical field of marine
pollutant detection methods. The method comprises the following steps: mixing a pretreated
sediment sample with
anhydrous sodium sulfate, soaking with an n-
hexane-
acetone mixed
solvent and concentrated
hydrochloric acid, then carrying out ultrasonic extraction, carrying out liquid-liquid distribution on an extracting solution to obtain an organic phase, concentrating the organic phase, dissolving the organic phase in
methanol to obtain a
methanol extracting solution, and carrying out
solid-liquid separation on the
methanol extracting solution; and loading the sample to an activated high-crosslinking polymethacrylate-
styrene solid-phase extraction column, sequentially carrying out sectional
elution by using
ethyl acetate,
dichloromethane and methanol, concentrating the eluent, fixing the volume, purifying, and carrying out chromatographic analysis. By optimizing an extraction
system and adopting a high-selectivity
solid-phase extraction material and a segmented
elution procedure, the technical problem that polar and non-polar components are difficult to synchronously and efficiently extract and purify is solved. The method is stable in
recovery rate, and is suitable for synchronous and accurate determination of trace persistent organic pollutants in a complex marine
sediment matrix.