Journal
ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 398, Issue 3, Pages 1239-1247Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-010-3621-z
Keywords
Endocrine-disrupting chemicals; Phenolic compounds; Honey; Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry; Validation according to 2002/657/EC; Restricted-access materials
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The present work describes the development and validation of an analytical method based on liquid chromatography (LC), coupled with tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) that allows the determination and confirmation of several endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in honey. The EDCs studied were nine phenols of different nature: chlorophenols (2,4-dichlorophenol, 2,4,5-trichlorophenol, and pentachlorophenol), alkylphenols (4-tert-butylphenol, 4-tert-octylphenol, and 4-n-octylphenol) bisphenols (bisphenol-A and bisphenol-F), and 4-tert-butylbenzoic acid. The method incorporates a restricted-access material (RAM), coupled on-line to the LC-MS/MS system, which allows direct injection of the matrix into the RAM-LC-MS/MS system. The optimized method developed, RAM-LC-MS/MS, was applied to fortified honey samples, affording detection limits in the 0.6-7.2 ng g(-1) range, calculated for a signal-to-noise ratio of 3. In addition, the method was validated as a quantitative confirmatory method according to European Union Decision 2002/657/EC. The validation criteria evaluated were linearity, repeatability, reproducibility, recovery, decision limits, detection capabilities, specificity, and ruggedness. Repeatability and within-laboratory reproducibility were evaluated at two concentration levels, being +/- 11% or below at 20 ng g(-1). The decision limits (CC alpha) and detection capabilities (CC beta) were in the 1.7-12.6 and 2.8-21.6 ng g(-1) range, respectively.
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