PMID- 32291518 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210127 LR - 20220406 IS - 1618-2650 (Electronic) IS - 1618-2642 (Linking) VI - 412 IP - 15 DP - 2020 Jun TI - Cytostatic compounds in sludge and sediment: extraction and determination by a combination of microwave-assisted extraction and UHPLC-MS/MS. PG - 3639-3651 LID - 10.1007/s00216-020-02600-0 [doi] AB - Cytostatic compounds are an important group of micro-pollutants since they are used to kill cells or stop cell division. For this reason, they are also considered mutagenic. Several cytostatic compounds have been detected in hospital effluents, in the influents and effluents of wastewater treatment plants and even in river water. However, their detection in solid matrices is very scarce. In this work, we have developed a new procedure based on microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) for the extraction of cytostatic compounds from sludge and sediment before determination by ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS). To develop this procedure, we have chosen a group of eight widely used cytostatic compounds and carried out a systematic experimental design to optimize the extraction conditions. Under these optimal conditions, the studied cytostatic compounds are extracted with good sensitivity, with recoveries ranging from 65 to 122% in sludge and recoveries varying between 49 and 109% in sediment, with the exception of etoposide, which has a lower recovery from these types of samples. The limits of detection were from 0.42 to 79.8 ng g(-1) in sludge and from 0.10 to 87.5 ng g(-1) in sediment. Intraday and interday relative standard deviations (RSDs) were below 15% and 18%, respectively, in both matrices at the tested concentrations. The total procedure was applied to samples of sludge taken from the main wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) of the island of Gran Canaria (Spain) and for sediment samples obtained close to the marine outfalls of different wastewater treatment plants for the same island. Graphical abstract. FAU - Santana-Viera, Sergio AU - Santana-Viera S AD - Instituto Universitario de Estudios Ambientales y Recursos Naturales (i-UNAT), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35017, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. FAU - Tucek, Jozef AU - Tucek J AD - Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Comenius University in Bratislava, Ilkovicova 6, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovak Republic. FAU - Torres-Padron, Maria Esther AU - Torres-Padron ME AD - Instituto Universitario de Estudios Ambientales y Recursos Naturales (i-UNAT), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35017, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. FAU - Sosa-Ferrera, Zoraida AU - Sosa-Ferrera Z AD - Instituto Universitario de Estudios Ambientales y Recursos Naturales (i-UNAT), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35017, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. FAU - Santana-Rodriguez, Jose Juan AU - Santana-Rodriguez JJ AD - Instituto Universitario de Estudios Ambientales y Recursos Naturales (i-UNAT), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35017, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. josejuan.santana@ulpgc.es. FAU - Halko, Radoslav AU - Halko R AD - Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Comenius University in Bratislava, Ilkovicova 6, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovak Republic. LA - eng GR - PhD student grant/Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria/ PT - Journal Article PT - Validation Study DEP - 20200414 PL - Germany TA - Anal Bioanal Chem JT - Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry JID - 101134327 RN - 0 (Cytostatic Agents) RN - 0 (Sewage) RN - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical) SB - IM MH - Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid/*methods MH - Cytostatic Agents/*analysis/isolation & purification MH - Geologic Sediments/*analysis MH - Limit of Detection MH - Microwaves MH - Sewage/*analysis MH - Solid Phase Extraction/methods MH - Tandem Mass Spectrometry/*methods MH - Water Pollutants, Chemical/*analysis/isolation & purification OTO - NOTNLM OT - Digestion/microwave digestion OT - HPLC OT - Organic compounds/trace organic compounds OT - Pharmaceuticals OT - Sediments/soil OT - Waste/sludge EDAT- 2020/04/16 06:00 MHDA- 2021/01/28 06:00 CRDT- 2020/04/16 06:00 PHST- 2020/01/14 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/03/13 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/02/27 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/04/16 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/01/28 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/04/16 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1007/s00216-020-02600-0 [pii] AID - 10.1007/s00216-020-02600-0 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Anal Bioanal Chem. 2020 Jun;412(15):3639-3651. doi: 10.1007/s00216-020-02600-0. Epub 2020 Apr 14.