Journal
JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A
Volume 1368, Issue -, Pages 89-99Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2014.09.056
Keywords
beta-Lactams; Milk; Thermal treatment; Transformation products; Metabolites; LC-LTQ-Orbitrap
Funding
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (MICINN) [CTQ2010-19044/BQU, BES-2011-045849]
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Antibiotics such as beta-lactam derivatives (penicillins and cephalosporins) are frequently used in veterinary medicine. The presence of these antibiotics together with their metabolites and/or products produced in subsequent treatments at which milk is submitted (sterilization, pasteurization), may be responsible for bacterial resistance, allergy and/or toxicity on sensitive individuals. In this study, liquid chromatography coupled with high resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS) is used to identify transformation products (TPs) from four beta-lactam antibiotics (amoxicillin (AMOX), cephapirin (PIR), ceftiofur (TIO) and penicillin G (PENG)) in thermally treated cow milk. In addition, milk from cows medicated with PENG has also been analogously treated and studied. The detected TPs come mainly from hydrolysis and decarboxylation reactions. Products more strongly degraded respect to parent compounds (of lower molecular weight) were obtained after treating milk at higher temperatures. Products identified in milk from cows medicated with PENG have been classified as TPs when coming from chemical/thermal degradation, and metabolites when resulting from the biological drug metabolism. While TPs are the result of hydrolysis and decarboxylation processes, as already indicated, an enzymatic conjugation with amino acids is suggested to be involved in the formation of metabolites. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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