title: Isotope dilution GC-MS of benzylpenicillin residues in bovine muscle.
abstract: The German provisional prevalidated official method for the determination of residues of benzylpenicillin in muscle (beef) which uses gas chromatography with nitrogen-specific detection (GC-NPD) was successfully adapted to gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) with selected-ion monitoring. The programmed temperature vaporisation injection technique used in the original method was substituted by on-column injection. An isotope dilution procedure for benzylpenicillin using 13C2-labelled benzylpenicillin as internal standard was developed to improve the reliability of the GC-MS results. The spectral overlap of this labelled standard and the analyte caused a non-linear relationship in calibration for which linear bracketing and single-point calibration were compared. Single-point calibration proved to be the superior method, showing less deviation from the 'true' value, while at the same time requiring fewer calibration measurements. A comparison of the results obtained by using (i) external standardisation only, (ii) a close analogue of the analyte (phenoxymethylpenicillin) and (iii) 13C2-labelled Pen G as internal standard showed, as was to be expected, that varying recoveries are best corrected by using the isotope-labelled standard.
authors.affiliation: University of Wuppertal, Department of Food Chemistry, Germany.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Preu
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Petz
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D004350:Drug Residues / Q000032:analysis*; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods; D007554:Isotopes; D008460:Meat / Q000032:analysis*; D010400:Penicillin G / Q000032:analysis*; D012015:Reference Standards; D019155:Veterinary Drugs / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D007554:Isotopes; D019155:Veterinary Drugs; D010400:Penicillin G