Journal
FOOD ADDITIVES AND CONTAMINANTS PART A-CHEMISTRY ANALYSIS CONTROL EXPOSURE & RISK ASSESSMENT
Volume 34, Issue 4, Pages 525-535Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/19440049.2016.1242169
Keywords
Clenbuterol; food residues; enantiomers; chiral SFC-MS/MS; chiral LC-MS/MS; cattle; growth promoter; doping
Funding
- World Anti-Doping Agency [11A18SS, 13D23SS]
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The differentiation of clenbuterol abuse and unintentional ingestion from contaminated meat is crucial with respect to the valuation of an adverse analytical finding in human sports doping control. The proportion of the two enantiomers of clenbuterol may serve as potential discriminating parameter. For the determination of the individual enantiomers, specific methods were developed and validated for the different matrices under investigation based on chiral chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry. Data are presented from the administration to humans of clenbuterol from a pharmaceutical preparation, and from cattle meat and liver containing residues. A shift in the proportion of the enantiomers in cattle meat is detected and this signature is also found in human urine after ingestion. Thus, an altered enantiomeric composition of clenbuterol may be used to substantiate athletes' claims following adverse analytical findings in doping control. However, in meat, the enantiomeric composition was found to be highly variable. Species as well as tissue dependent variances need to be considered in interpreting enantiomer discrimination. Analysis of post administration urines from a controlled experiment comparing the administration of racemic clenbuterol from a registered pharmaceutical preparation and the administration of residue-containing meat and liver (non-racemic mixture) from treated animals is reported. Furthermore doping control samples from Mexican U17 World Championship 2011 of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), with adverse analytical findings for clenbuterol, were re-analysed.
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