Journal
ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 397, Issue 6, Pages 2615-2621Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-010-3819-0
Keywords
Fluoroquinolones; Chicken and turkey muscle tissue; Liquid chromatography; Spectrofluorimetric detection
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A total of 98 poultry samples, including chicken and turkey muscle, were analysed, using a sensitive and reliable analytical method based on liquid chromatography (LC) with spectrofluorimetric detection, for simultaneous determination of four fluoroquinolone (FQ) antibiotics, namely enrofloxacin (ENRO), ciprofloxacin (CIPRO), norfloxacin (NOR), and sarafloxacin (SARA). The method involved extraction with 0.15 mol L(-1) HCl and clean-up by solid-phase extraction using Oasis HLB cartridges. Chromatographic separation was carried out on a C(18) TSK gel column, in isocratic mode, with 0.025 mol L(-1) H(3)PO(4) solution, adjusted to pH 3.0 with tetrabutylammonium hydroxide-methanol (78:22) as mobile phase. Good linearity over the investigated concentration range was observed, with mean values of correlation coefficients higher than 0.9989 for all the analytes studied. The limits of quantification (LOQ), expressed as the lowest fortification level with acceptable precision were 15 mu g kg(-1) for ENRO, CIPRO, and NOR, and 30 mu g kg(-1) for SARA; these values are in compliance with requirements for monitoring of maximum residues levels (MRLs). Overall recoveries from spiked samples ranged from 80% to 92% with relative standard deviations (RSD) lower than 6.1%. Of the chicken and turkey samples analysed, 44.2% and 37.8%, respectively, were contaminated. The levels found in the analysed poultry samples, collected from markets of Oporto and Coimbra, located in the north and central zones of Portugal, respectively, were lower than 114.2 and 87.6 mu g kg(-1) in chicken and turkey muscle samples, respectively. One positive chicken sample was contaminated with ENRO at levels higher than the MRL.
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