Journal
JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A
Volume 1217, Issue 50, Pages 7873-7877Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2010.10.055
Keywords
Clenbuterol; Sabutamol; Ractopamine; Milk; LC-MS/MS; Isotope dilution
Funding
- National Science Fund of China [31072172]
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A simple, sensitive and reliable analytical method was developed for the simultaneous determination of clenbuterol (CLB), salbutamol (SAL) and ractopamine (RAC) in milk by ultra high performance liquid chromatography-positive electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-ESI-MS/MS) with isotope dilution. Samples were directly purified through HLB cartridge. Then the eluate was dried under nitrogen and residues were redissolved in mobile phase. Samples were analyzed by LC-MS/MS on an Acquity UPLC (R) BEH C-18 column with gradient elution. The samples were quantified using clenbuterol-D-9, salbutamol-D-3 and ractopamine-D-6 as internal standards. The proposed method was validated according to the European Commission Decision 2002/657/EC determining specificity, decision limit (CC alpha), detection capability (CC beta), recovery, precision, linearity, robustness and stability. CC alpha values were 0.054, 0.006 and 0.008 mu g/kg for CLB, SAL and RAC, respectively. CC beta values were 0.058, 0.007 and 0.009 mu g/kg for CLB, SAL and RAC, respectively. The mean recoveries, repeatability (expressed as coefficient of variation. CVr), and reproducibility (CVR) varied from 95.8 to 106.2%, from 3.60 to 6.44% (CVr), and from 4.77 to 7.53% (CVR), respectively. The method is demonstrated to be suitable for the determination of clenbuterol, salbutamol and ractopamine in milk. The total time required for the analysis of one sample, including sample preparation, was about 45 min. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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