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The Finnigan Polaris MS detector, operating in Evaluation of the procedure. The milk
NCI MS/MS mode: m/z 466 - as a precursor ion and samples were spiked with chloramphenicol at a level of
ions m/z 304, 322, 358, 394, and 430 as transition 0.15, 0.3, 1.0 ng/mL and processed through the
products for chloramphenicol. extraction procedure described above. The recovery of
Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. chloramphenicol was evaluated by comparing the
The liquid chromatography (Agilent 1100) was coupled concentration found with standard solution. The
to a mass spectrometer API 3000 (Applied Biosystems). precision of the method was measured using the same
Chromatographic separation was performed in the samples.
column Luna C8 (150 mm x 2 mm x 3 m)
(Phenomenex). The mobile phase for LC analysis Results
consisted of 5 mM ammonium formate (A) and
acetonitryle (B). The gradient mobile phase was pumped Typical GC-MS/MS and LCMS/MS
through the analytical column with the programme chromatograms of extracts obtained from standard
presented in Table 1. Separation of the analytes was solution (blank milk, and chloramphenicol) fortified
accomplished at a flow of 0.2 mL/min at an ambient milk samples, are shown in Figs 1 and 2, respectively.
temperature. Instrument API 3000 was operated in the Chromatograms of milk samples spiked with
electrospray negative ion mode: m/z 321 as a chloramphenicol at the level 0.3 g/L, are shown in Figs
precursor ion and ions m/z 152 and 257 as transition 1B and 2B. Both methods were validated according to
products for chloramphenicol. the quality standard ISO 17025 and 2002/657/EC
Decision (5), and Table 2 summarises the validation
Table 1 results. During the validation process, linear regression
Gradient mobile phase equation, correlation coefficient, linearity (working
Time (min) Flow (L/min) A (%) B (%) range), decision limit (CC), and the detection
capability (CC) were established. Recoveries were
0.00 200 90.0 10.0
determined by comparing the peak areas of the milk
1.50 200 90.0 10.0
samples spiked with corresponding amounts of CAP
6.50 200 68.0 32.0
before and after extraction.
10.00 200 68.0 32.0
11.00 200 90.0 10.0
20.00 200 90.0 10.0
Discussion
Extraction of milk. The extraction of milk
samples have been described previously (21). A 5 g Many analytical procedures have been
portion of milk sample was diluted with 20 ml of described for the determination of CAP residues in
acetonitryle, homogenized and centrifuged at 3 500g for biological matrices, but only a few are available for milk
10 min at about 6C. The top layer was taken and matrices (3, 13, 19, 21). Generally, organic solvents are
evaporated until dry using nitrogen, and dissolved in 6 used as extractant for quantitative procedures for
ml of water. The whole solution was cleaned up by solid chloramphenicol analysis, predominantly ethyl acetate,
phase extraction (SPE) technique. which provide good recoveries, but too many interfering
Clean up. SPE C-18 cartridges were compounds were co-isolated that it does not allow CAP
preconditioned with 3 ml of methanol and 3 ml of water. to be screened at lower levels. Our procedure proposed
After percolation of the whole solution, the column was an extraction of CAP from the milk sample with
washed with 6 ml of water, 3 ml of 20% methanol, and acetonitryle. Instead of the previously described ethyl
dried under negative pression for 5 min. CAP was eluted acetate use. Additionally, SPE with double C18
with 3 ml of 60% methanol. The eluate was diluted with cartridges clean up was used for a better separation of
5 ml of water, the solution was mixed and passed the isolated endogenous compounds.
through a new C18 SPE column, and the elution was The identical extraction procedure in our
made with 3 ml of methanol. experiment with different detection methods, allowed a
Determination by GCMS/MS. The eluate clear comparison of detection capabilities of GC
was dried under a gentle nitrogen stream at 45C. The MS/MS or LCMS/MS. The principal fragments of
dry residue was dissolved in 300 l of methanol and CAP-TMS for negative chemical ionization (NCI) in
shaken vigorously with a vortex to retrieve the whole GCMS/MS; explaining the specific mass spectrum, are
residue, then it was transferred to a vial, dried under shown in Fig. 3A.
gentle nitrogen stream and derivatized with 20 l As we see, the fragmentation at Fig. 3
BSTFA containing 1% of TMCS. The vial was heated at electrospray in negative ionization in LCMS/MS was
60C for 1 h and analyzed by GC-MS/MS. quite different. In both methods that were chosen, the
Determination by LCMS/MS. The eluate ratio of the retention time of the analyte, compared to
was dried under gentle nitrogen stream at 45C. The dry that of the corresponding standard, corresponded within
residue was dissolved in 200 l of 5mM ammonium a 0.5% tolerance for GC and 2.5% for LC. For
formate and shaken vigorously with a vortex to retrieve quantification purposes, the following ion transition has
the whole residue, and then it was transferred to a vial been applied: m/z 466304 and 466322 for GC
and analyzed by LCMS/MS. MS/MS, m/z: 321152, 321257 and for LCMS/MS.
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Table 2
Validation report
Parameter Technique
GCMS/MS LCMS/MS
Linear regression equation (y=mx+b) y = 12339.9x 69.086 y=0.714x+0.153
Correlation coefficient 0.9789 0.9605
Linearity (working range), g/kg 0.15-2.0 0.15-2.0
Decision limit (CC), g/kg 0.083 0.11
Detection capability (CC), g/kg 0.14 0.15
Level of spiked samples milk, g/kg 0.15 0.3 1.0 0.15 0.3 1.0
Recovery, % 61.9 78.0 68.5 91.3 92.1 91.5
Repeatability
x, g/kg 0.093 0.237 0.685 0.142 0.291 0.995
xi, s, g/kg 0.014 0.018 0.091 0.022 0.01 0.018
xii, RSD,% 15.0 7.8 13.4 15.2 3.7 2.9
Uncertainty combined (uc) 0.0056 0.0017
Expanded (U) 2 2
Coverage factor (k) 0.150.011 0.150.0035
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A 304,5 MS
Genes is
cap050310
80 B 304,5 MS
Genes is
cap050310
Relative Abundance
Relative Abundance
02 70 06
60
60
50
50
40 40
30 30
20 20
10 10
0 N L: 0 N L:
R T: 14,75
100 1,09E1 4,08E2
BP: 322,0
100
90 m /z= m /z=
321,5- 90 321,5-
80 322,5 MS 322,5 MS
Genes is 80 Genes is
70 cap050310 cap050310
02 70 06
60
60
50
50
40
40
30 30
20 20
10 10
0 0
14,0 14,2 14,4 14,6 14,8 15,0 15,2 15,4 14,0 14,2 14,4 14,6 14,8 15,0 15,2 15,4 15,6 15,8
Tim e (m in) Tim e (m in)
R T: 14 ,1 5 - 1 6 ,0 2 SM: 7 G
R T: 1 4 ,76 N L:
10 0 3 ,6 1E2
90 m /z=
3 03 ,5 -
C
80 3 04 ,5 MS
Gen e s is
70 ca p 05 0 3 10
Relative Abundance
04
60
50
40
30
20
10
0 N L:
R T: 1 4 ,7 5
10 0 6 ,6 6E2
90 m /z=
3 21 ,5 -
80 3 22 ,5 MS
Gen e s is
70 ca p 05 0 3 10
04
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
1 4,2 1 4 ,4 1 4,6 1 4 ,8 15 ,0 1 5 ,2 1 5 ,4 1 5,6 15 ,8 16 ,0
Tim e (m in )
A B
NO2
A Cl B
NH Cl
O NO2
OH
NO2 OH
OTMS Cl
m/z 304
OH Cl
NH
Cl
O 257m/z
O Cl OH
NO2 TMSO NO2
m/z 466 Cl
OH
Cl O
NH [M-H]-=321 m/z
Cl 152 m/z
O
NO2 OH OH
m/z 322
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