PMID- 37837724 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20231102 LR - 20240328 IS - 1873-3778 (Electronic) IS - 0021-9673 (Linking) VI - 1710 DP - 2023 Nov 8 TI - Determination of tobacco-specific nitrosamines in tobacco and mainstream cigarette smoke using one-step clean-up coupled with liquid chromatography- tandem mass spectrometry. PG - 464436 LID - S0021-9673(23)00661-1 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.chroma.2023.464436 [doi] AB - A method for determining tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) in tobacco and cigarette smoke using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry was established. The established method amended the deficiencies that exist in current mainstream methods. In this method, TSNAs in tobacco and cigarette smoke were extracted by water. The aqueous extract was then extracted by dichloromethane, and the extract could be analyzed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry after a solvent replacement. This method was used to analyze flue-cured tobacco samples, and the response of the target compounds was about 10 times higher than that of the ammonium acetate extraction method. When analyzing cigarette smoke samples, the response strength and chromatographic peak purity of the target compounds were also significantly improved. The proposed method exhibited good linearities for both tobacco and cigarette smoke samples (r(2) > 0.99). The limits of detection (LODs) for tobacco and cigarette smoke samples were 0.2-1.0 ng/g and 0.1-0.3 ng/cigarette, respectively. Additionally, this method exhibited desirable accuracy and precision. The TSNAs recovery values from tobacco and cigarette smoke samples ranged from 95.7 % to 107.7 % with inter- and intra-day relative standard deviations (RSDs) of less than 7.4 %. This method is simple, effective, and has wide adaptability. It is a useful upgrade to the existing methods for analyzing TSNAs in tobacco and cigarette smoke. CI - Copyright (c) 2023. Published by Elsevier B.V. FAU - Li, Yong AU - Li Y AD - Yunnan academy of tobacco agricultural sciences, No. 33 Yuantong street, Wuhua district, Kunming, Yunnan 650021, China. FAU - Pang, Tao AU - Pang T AD - Yunnan academy of tobacco agricultural sciences, No. 33 Yuantong street, Wuhua district, Kunming, Yunnan 650021, China. Electronic address: baggiopt@126.com. FAU - Shi, Junli AU - Shi J AD - Yunnan academy of tobacco agricultural sciences, No. 33 Yuantong street, Wuhua district, Kunming, Yunnan 650021, China. FAU - Liu, Xingyu AU - Liu X AD - Shanghai tobacco group Beijing cigarette factory, Beijing 101121, China. FAU - Xu, Zhaoli AU - Xu Z AD - Yunnan academy of tobacco agricultural sciences, No. 33 Yuantong street, Wuhua district, Kunming, Yunnan 650021, China. FAU - Song, Zhongbang AU - Song Z AD - Yunnan academy of tobacco agricultural sciences, No. 33 Yuantong street, Wuhua district, Kunming, Yunnan 650021, China. FAU - Xie, He AU - Xie H AD - Yunnan academy of tobacco agricultural sciences, No. 33 Yuantong street, Wuhua district, Kunming, Yunnan 650021, China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20231006 PL - Netherlands TA - J Chromatogr A JT - Journal of chromatography. A JID - 9318488 RN - 0 (Nitrosamines) SB - IM MH - *Nitrosamines/analysis MH - Tandem Mass Spectrometry/methods MH - *Cigarette Smoking MH - Reproducibility of Results MH - Chromatography, Liquid OTO - NOTNLM OT - Cigarette smoke OT - Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry OT - Liquid-liquid extraction OT - Tobacco OT - Tobacco-specific nitrosamines COIS- Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. EDAT- 2023/10/15 05:46 MHDA- 2023/11/02 12:44 CRDT- 2023/10/14 18:02 PHST- 2023/06/01 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/09/27 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2023/10/05 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/11/02 12:44 [medline] PHST- 2023/10/15 05:46 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/10/14 18:02 [entrez] AID - S0021-9673(23)00661-1 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.chroma.2023.464436 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Chromatogr A. 2023 Nov 8;1710:464436. doi: 10.1016/j.chroma.2023.464436. Epub 2023 Oct 6.