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JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY B-ANALYTICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE BIOMEDICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES
Volume 767, Issue 2, Pages 341-351Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S1570-0232(01)00593-1
Keywords
antidoping control
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An experimental approach fur the validation of chromatographic qualitative methods and its application in an antidoping control laboratory is described. The proposed strategy for validation of qualitative methods consists of the verification of selectivity/specificity, limit of detection (LOD), extraction recovery and repeatability (intra-assay precision). A one-day assay protocol, based on the analysis of five blank samples obtained from different sources and four replicates of control samples at two different concentrations of the analytes, has been defined to evaluate the validation parameters. The following evaluation criteria have been applied: absence of interfering substances at the retention time of the analytes in the blank samples to check the selectivity/specificity of the method, the LOD recommended by international sports authorities has to be attained, and for repeatability, the relative standard deviation should be <25% for the low concentration control sample and <15% for the high concentration control sample. Qualitative screening procedures are able to detect a great number of analytes so that extraction and analysis conditions are always a compromise for the different analytes. For this reason, no minimum acceptance criteria have been defined for data of extraction recoveries. The proposed protocol has been used for the validation of the screening and confirmation qualitative methods included in the scope of the accreditation of an antidoping control laboratory according to ISO quality standards. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science BY. All rights reserved.
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