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The published version of this article, unfortunately, contains error. Author name was corrected as "A. M. Abd EI-Aty" - upper case of "i" in "EI-Aty", instead of "A. M. Abd El-Aty" - lower case of "L". Given in this paper is the correct author name. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A class-specific molecular imprinted polymer (MIP) is described for simultaneous recognition of prometryn and simetryn prior to their determination via a fingerprint signal (at 974 cm−1 and 1074 cm−1) in the surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectra that were acquired in the presence of gold nanoparticles. The imprinted nanoparticles were applied to the analysis of rice and wheat samples spiked with both herbicides. The method has fairly good recoveries (72.7-90.9%) with a relative standard deviation of 1.7-7.8%, and a 20 μg·kg−1 limit of detection. The imprint factors (compared to non-imprinted polymers) are 5.3 for prometryn and 4.2 for simetryn (both at 10 μg·mL−1 of the initial solution).A MIP-SERS method was developed for simultaneous detection of triazine herbicides (prometryn and simetryn) in food samples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]