The goal of this work was to compare Pressurised Liquid Extraction (PLE), which is usually used to extract drugs from soil, and a modified-QuEChERS (Quick, Easy, Cheap, Effective, Rugged and Safe) method. Furthermore, several clean-up methods were evaluated. Selective Pressurised Liquid Extraction (SPLE) and Dispersive Solid Phase Extraction (dSPE) used after PLE and QuEChERS, respectively, wer...

This application note describes the use of a quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe (QuEChERS) sample preparation procedure. The QuEChERS method employs an extraction and cleanup protocol for the determination of acrylamide with C3-acrylamide as the internal standard. The analyte and internal standard were separated on a reversed phase C-18 column (2.1 mm × 150 mm, 3 μm) by isocratic e...

A simple and fast lipid extraction method from human blood plasma and urine is introduced in this study. The effective lipid extraction from biological systems with a minimization of the matrix effect is important for the successful qualitative and quantitative analysis of lipids in liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-ESI-MS/MS). The method described here ...

QuEChERS stands for Quick, Easy, Cheap, Effective, Rugged, and Safe. This method is widely used to determine pesticides and was first introduced in 2003. Anastassiades and colleagues first introduced this method in 2003 to extract veterinary drugs from animal tissue [1]. Toxicology samples in forensic medicine are usually analyzed by Liquid-Liquid extraction (LLE) and solid phase extraction (SP...

This application note describes the use of a quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe (QuEChERS) sample preparation procedure. The QuEChERS method employs an extraction and cleanup protocol for the determination of acrylamide with C3-acrylamide as the internal standard. The analyte and internal standard were separated on a reversed phase C-18 column (2.1 mm × 150 mm, 3 μm) by isocratic e...

The quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged and safe (QuEChERS) method for sample preparation was applied to determine seven organophosphorus pesticides (OPs) in stomach contents of poisoned postmortem animals. The pesticides consisted of diazinon, edifenphos, ethyl p-nitrophenyl phenylphosphonothioate, fenitrothion, monocrotophos, parathion and phosphamindon, and tested samples included stomach ...

A QuEChERS extraction followed by GC/MS/MS and GC-μECD/NPD for 216 pesticide and metabolites determination in soil simultaneously were developed and compared. Volume of water, volume and polarity of solvent, and cleanup sorbents (C18, GCB, PSA) were optimized. The QuEChERS with and without purification step were applied to estimate effectiveness of the method. The recovery and matrix effect (ME...

A method based on the QuEChERS (quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe) purification combined with ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS), was optimized for the simultaneous quantification of 25 mycotoxins in cereals. Samples were extracted with a solution containing 80% acetonitrile and 0.1% formic acid, and purified with QuEChERS before bein...

According to the state institute for chemical and veterinary analysis of food, “Conventionally grown wine grapes are one of the crops most extensively treated with pesticides” (CVUA Stuttgart). The use of different fungicides and insecticides is commonplace in vineyards across the world to improve crop yields. Maximum residue levels (MRLs) have been established for grapes in many areas in the w...

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Method NMFS-NWFSC-59 2004 is currently used to quantitatively analyze seafood for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) contamination, especially following events such as the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that released millions of barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. This method has limited throughput capacity; hence, alterna...