The Power of Hyphenated Chromatography/Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry in Public Health Laboratories
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The Power of Hyphenated Chromatography/Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry in Public Health LaboratoriesDate
2012Publisher
American Chemical SocietyISSN
0021-8561; 520-5118Type
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Abstract
Laboratories devoted to the public health field have to face the analysis of a large number of organic
contaminants/residues in many different types of samples. Analytical techniques applied in this field are normally ... [+]
Laboratories devoted to the public health field have to face the analysis of a large number of organic
contaminants/residues in many different types of samples. Analytical techniques applied in this field are normally focused on
quantification of a limited number of analytes. At present, most of these techniques are based on gas chromatography (GC) or
liquid chromatography (LC) coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS). Using these techniques only analyte-specific
information is acquired, and many other compounds that might be present in the samples would be ignored. In this paper, we
explore the potential of time-of-flight (TOF) MS hyphenated to GC or LC to provide additional information, highly useful in
this field. Thus, all positives reported by standard reference targeted LC−MS/MS methods were unequivocally confirmed by
LC−QTOF MS. Only 61% of positives reported by targeted GC−MS/MS could be confirmed by GC−TOF MS, which was due
to its lower sensitivity as nonconfirmations corresponded to analytes that were present at very low concentrations. In addition,
the use of TOF MS allowed searching for additional compounds in large-scope screening methodologies. In this way, different
contaminants/residues not included in either LC or GC tandem MS analyses were detected. This was the case of the insecticide
thiacloprid, the plant growth regulator paclobutrazol, the fungicide prochloraz, or the UV filter benzophenone, among others.
Finally, elucidation of unknowns was another of the possibilities offered by TOF MS thanks to the accurate-mass full-acquisition
data available when using this technique. [-]
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Journal of Agricultural Food and Chemistry., 2012, vol. 60, núm. 21Rights
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