Journal
JOURNAL OF SEPARATION SCIENCE
Volume 43, Issue 17, Pages 3534-3545Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/jssc.201901223
Keywords
high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry; multi-classes pesticides; pesticide residues; serum; tandem mass spectrometry
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Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2017YFC1601803]
- Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission project [D171100008017003]
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Detecting pesticide residues in human serum is a challenging process. In this study we developed and validated a method for the extraction and recovery of residues of multiple classes of pesticides from serum using one reagent. Salt-assisted acetonitrile extraction and high-performance liquid chromatography with quadrupole time of flight tandem mass spectrometry were used to quantitate 34 pesticides classified in nine groups of chemicals in human serum samples, which are frequently detected in food. The recoveries for 33 of analyzed pesticides ranged from 86 to 112% with relative standard deviations below 15%. The limits of quantitation and linearity of 31 of the pesticides were 1 mu g/L and >0.990, respectively. The lower limit of quantitation has been reported in the literature particularly for multi-classes pesticide mixtures in human serum. The salt-acetonitrile reagent was allowed to achieve good recoveries and detection limits, which could be attributed to salt altering the solvent polarity, preferentially collecting the organic phase in the solution, and promoting the extraction. The developed method was applied for two organophosphate pesticide metabolites, diethylphosphate and 3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinol, in serum from rats that were fed a nonlethal quantity of chlorpyrifos. The concentrations of these two were 252.18 +/- 15.47 and 0.63 +/- 0.23 mu g/L, respectively.
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