PMID- 21742111 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20111111 LR - 20191210 IS - 1873-4324 (Electronic) IS - 0003-2670 (Linking) VI - 700 IP - 1-2 DP - 2011 Aug 26 TI - Validation study on avermectine residues in foodstuffs. PG - 11-5 LID - 10.1016/j.aca.2010.12.035 [doi] AB - Avermectines are antiparasitic agents widely used as veterinary drugs for food producing animals. The European Community, due to their side effects, limited the use of these molecules establishing maximum residue limits (MRLs) in some foods. A validated qualitative and quantitative high performance liquid chromatography method with fluorescence detection (HPLC-FL) is presented for the simultaneous determination of ivermectin (IVM), abemectin (ABA), moxidectin (MOX), eprinomectin (EPR), doramectin (DOR) and emamectin (EMA) in foodstuffs (muscle, eggs and milk). Samples were extracted with acetonitrile, purified with liquid-liquid extraction (LLE), and analysed by HLPC-FL previous derivatization with trifluoroacetic anhydride (TFAA) in presence of 1-methyl-imidazole (MI) and acetic acid. To date, the presented method is the first validated for the matrix eggs, and in accordance with the requirements set by Commission Decision 2002/657/EC. Recoveries of the methods, calculated spiking the samples in the range 5.0-100.0 mug kg(-1), were 64-83% for muscle, 65-89% for milk and 63-84% for eggs. The precision (CV) ranged between 9.2 and 17.1% for muscle, 9.9 and 16.6% for milk and from 9.4 to 17.4% for eggs. Linearity for the six analytes was calculated from 5.0 to 200.0 mug kg(-1). The main advantages of the presented method are its rapidity, the specificity, the good precision and recovery that make it very suitable to the detection and determination of avermectines. CI - Copyright (c) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Giannetti, L AU - Giannetti L AD - Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale Regioni Lazio e Toscana, Rome, Italy. luigi.giannetti@izslt.it FAU - Giorgi, A AU - Giorgi A FAU - Necci, F AU - Necci F FAU - Ferretti, G AU - Ferretti G FAU - Buiarelli, F AU - Buiarelli F FAU - Neri, B AU - Neri B LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Validation Study DEP - 20110113 PL - Netherlands TA - Anal Chim Acta JT - Analytica chimica acta JID - 0370534 RN - 0 (Acetic Anhydrides) RN - 0 (Acetonitriles) RN - 0 (Antiparasitic Agents) RN - 0 (Fluoroacetates) RN - 5ENA87IZHT (trifluoroacetic anhydride) RN - E5R8Z4G708 (Trifluoroacetic Acid) RN - Z072SB282N (acetonitrile) SB - IM MH - Acetic Anhydrides MH - Acetonitriles/chemistry MH - Animals MH - Antiparasitic Agents/*analysis MH - Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid/*methods MH - Eggs/analysis MH - Fluoroacetates MH - Food Analysis/*methods MH - Milk/chemistry MH - Muscles/chemistry MH - Spectrometry, Fluorescence/methods MH - Trifluoroacetic Acid/chemistry EDAT- 2011/07/12 06:00 MHDA- 2011/11/15 06:00 CRDT- 2011/07/12 06:00 PHST- 2010/10/01 00:00 [received] PHST- 2010/12/13 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2010/12/22 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2011/07/12 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/07/12 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2011/11/15 06:00 [medline] AID - S0003-2670(11)00057-2 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.aca.2010.12.035 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Anal Chim Acta. 2011 Aug 26;700(1-2):11-5. doi: 10.1016/j.aca.2010.12.035. Epub 2011 Jan 13.