The challenges of developing a generic extraction procedure to analyze multi-class veterinary drug residues in milk and honey using ultra-high pressure liquid chromatography quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry

Drug Testing and Analysis

Volumn 4, Issue SUPPL.1, 2012, Pages 103-111

  Wang, Jian ^a   Leung, Daniel ^a  

^a CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Honey; Milk; QuEChERs; UHPLC QqTOF MS; Veterinary drugs

Indexed keywords

AMIDES; ANTIBIOTICS; DEGRADATION; EXTRACTION; FOOD PRODUCTS; HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PH; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

EXTRACTION PROCEDURE; GENERIC EXTRACTIONS; HONEY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-QUADRUPOLE TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRIES; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY/QUADRUPOLE-TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRIES; MILK; QUECHER; UHPLC QQTOF MS; ULTRA-HIGH; VETERINARY DRUGS;

ACETONITRILE;

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; BETA LACTAM; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ENDECTOCIDE; IONOPHORE; MACROLIDE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VETERINARY DRUG;

ARTICLE; DRUG DEGRADATION; DRUG IDENTIFICATION; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG SCREENING; HONEY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MILK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRUPOLE TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; ULTRA PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

EID: 84864397104     PISSN: 19427603     EISSN: 19427611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dta.1355     Document Type: Article

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