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JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL AND BIOMEDICAL ANALYSIS
Volume 74, Issue -, Pages 162-170Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2012.10.019
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Stir bar sorptive extraction; Leachables; PBHP degradation products; Polyethylene; GC-MS/MS
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Identification and determination of leachable components are essential for the safety assessment of implantable medical devices. The safety concern threshold (SCT) for leachable components is 0.15 mu g/day for genotoxic or carcinogenic compounds and 1.5 mu g/day for others. Regulatory agencies require extraction of a whole medical device using an extraction media that simulates in vitro conditions. Large-sized medical devices therefore require large volumes of aqueous media, leading to extracts of very low concentrations of the targeted analytes. Analysis of these dilute solutions is often challenging, and pre-concentration steps are time consuming and can cause significant sample loss. Stir bar sorptive extraction (SBSE) has proven to be a very useful sample preparation technique that is simple and uses no (or minimal (<1 ml)) aqueous or organic solvents. When combined with a highly selective and sensitive GC-MS/MS analysis, volatile and semi-volatile leachable components can be determined at levels below the SCT of 150 ng/device. An SBSE-GC-MS/MS method using multiple reaction monitoring detection was validated for determination of antioxidant related leachable breakdown products from orthopedic knee-inserts made from ultra high molecular weight polyethylene. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved,
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