Determination of chloramphenicol, thiamphenicol, florfenicol, and florfenicol amine in poultry and porcine muscle and liver by gas chromatography-negative chemical ionization mass spectrometry

J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci. 2009 May 15;877(14-15):1523-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2009.03.040. Epub 2009 Mar 31.

Abstract

A sensitive and reliable method using gas chromatography-negative chemical ionization mass spectrometry (GC-NCI/MS) was developed for the simultaneous determination of chloramphenicol (CAP), thiamphenicol (TAP), florfenicol (FF), and florfenicol amine (FFA) at trace levels in muscle and liver. Before extraction with ethyl acetate, CAP-d(5) was added to tissue samples as internal standard. The organic extracts were frozen to remove lipid and further purified by liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) with hexane and solid-phase extraction (SPE) using Oasis HLB cartridges. The target compounds were derivatized with BSTFA+1% TMCS prior to GC-NCI/MS determination in selected ion monitoring mode (SIM). The recovery values ranged from 78.5 to 105.5%, with relative standard deviations (RSD) <17%. The limits of detections (LODs) of 0.1 microg/kg for CAP and 0.5 microg/kg for TAP, FF, and FFA were obtain. Incurred sample and samples from local market were successfully analyzed using this method.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Chloramphenicol / analogs & derivatives*
  • Chloramphenicol / analysis*
  • Chromatography, Gas / methods*
  • Liver / chemistry*
  • Muscles / chemistry*
  • Poultry
  • Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization / methods*
  • Swine
  • Thiamphenicol / analogs & derivatives
  • Thiamphenicol / analysis

Substances

  • Chloramphenicol
  • florfenicol amine
  • florfenicol
  • Thiamphenicol