title: Development of a novel strategy for preconcentration of antibiotic residues in milk and their quantitation by capillary electrophoresis.
abstract: A novel analytical method based on capillary zone electrophoresis coupled with diode array detection is developed and validated for the identification and simultaneous quantitation of four antibiotics in bovine raw milk. The studied antibiotics belong to different groups: beta-lactams, tetracyclines, quinolones, amphenicols and sulfonamides. An experimental design including both a factorial and a central composite design allowed a reduction in the number of optimization experiments. The multiple response criterion was successfully used to optimize the separation between chloramphenicol, ciprofloxacin, ampicillin, tetracycline and sulfamethoxazol, allowing the reduction of the analysis time with excellent peak resolutions and low capillary current. Different strategies for preconcentration and extraction of the studied antibiotics were applied, in order to remove potential interferences from the sample and to increase the sensitivity. Milk samples were prepared by a clean-up/extraction procedure based on protein precipitation with trichloroacetic acid followed by liquid-liquid extraction with dichloromethane combined with solid-phase extraction, and injection into the electrophoretic system hydrodynamically. The limits of detection and quantification (below 30 and 100 microg L(-1), respectively) were in all cases lower than the maximum residue limits tolerated for these compounds in milk. Accuracy was evaluated by computing recoveries for the target antibiotics which were between 93.08% and 102.89%.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio de Desarrollo Analítico y Quimiometría, Cátedra de Química Analítica I, Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Ciudad Universitaria, Santa Fe, S3000ZAA, Argentina.
authors.forename: Luciana
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Vera-Candioti
authors.forename: Alejandro C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Olivieri
authors.forename: Héctor C
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Goicoechea
mesh_terms: D053000:Analytic Sample Preparation Methods / Q000379:methods*; D000818:Animals; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000032:analysis* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004350:Drug Residues / Q000032:analysis* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004553:Electric Conductivity; D019075:Electrophoresis, Capillary / Q000379:methods*; D005506:Food Contamination / Q000032:analysis; D057230:Limit of Detection; D016014:Linear Models; D008892:Milk / Q000737:chemistry*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents