PMID- 29920090 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20180814 LR - 20191210 IS - 1520-5118 (Electronic) IS - 0021-8561 (Linking) VI - 66 IP - 29 DP - 2018 Jul 25 TI - Trace Level Analysis of Sarin and VX in Food Using Normal Phase Silica Gel and Ultra-Performance Liquid Chromatography-Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (UPLC-TOF-MS). PG - 7846-7856 LID - 10.1021/acs.jafc.8b01756 [doi] AB - Ultra-Performance Liquid Chromatography/electrospray ionization mass spectrometry was used for the trace level determination of isopropyl methylphosphonofluoridate (Sarin, GB) and ( O-ethyl S-[2-(diisopropylamino)ethyl] methylphosphonothioate (VX) after extraction from various foods. A method utilizing normal phase silica gel was developed for the sample preparation and extraction of VX and GB from food. The extraction efficiencies of the normal phase silica gel method for VX was compared to those of other commercial solid phase extraction media and was found to be comparable. Sarin was found to be incompatible with both the mixed mode cation exchange (MCX) sorbents and QuEChERS methods that are commercially available but was successful with the normal phase silica gel method. The linear range of quantitation for VX was 0.1-330 ng/mL and for GB was 20-1200 ng/mL. The average recoveries of VX and GB from the various food matrices along with the corresponding relative standard deviations (RSDs) are reported. FAU - Bae, Sue Y AU - Bae SY AD - Research and Technology Directorate , U.S. Army, Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), Aberdeen Proving Ground , Maryland 21010-5424 , United States. FAU - Winemiller, Mark D AU - Winemiller MD AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7433-428X AD - Research and Technology Directorate , U.S. Army, Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), Aberdeen Proving Ground , Maryland 21010-5424 , United States. LA - eng PT - Evaluation Study PT - Journal Article DEP - 20180711 PL - United States TA - J Agric Food Chem JT - Journal of agricultural and food chemistry JID - 0374755 RN - 0 (Chemical Warfare Agents) RN - 0 (Organothiophosphorus Compounds) RN - 60650-90-0 (Silica Gel) RN - 9A4381183B (VX) RN - B4XG72QGFM (Sarin) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Chemical Warfare Agents/*chemistry/*isolation & purification MH - Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid/*methods MH - Eggs/analysis MH - Food Contamination/*analysis MH - Fruit and Vegetable Juices/analysis MH - Milk/chemistry MH - Organothiophosphorus Compounds/*analysis/*isolation & purification MH - Sarin/*analysis/*isolation & purification MH - Silica Gel MH - Solid Phase Extraction/instrumentation/*methods MH - Tandem Mass Spectrometry/*methods OTO - NOTNLM OT - chemical warfare agents OT - mass spectrometry OT - solid phase extraction EDAT- 2018/06/20 06:00 MHDA- 2018/08/15 06:00 CRDT- 2018/06/20 06:00 PHST- 2018/06/20 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/08/15 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/06/20 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1021/acs.jafc.8b01756 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Agric Food Chem. 2018 Jul 25;66(29):7846-7856. doi: 10.1021/acs.jafc.8b01756. Epub 2018 Jul 11.