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Recently developed GC/MS and LC/MS methods for determining NSAIDs in water samples

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Pharmaceuticals have become major targets in environmental chemistry due to their presence in aquatic environments (following incomplete removal in wastewater treatment or point-source contaminations), threat to drinking water sources and concern about their possible effects to wildlife and humans. Recently several methods have been developed for the determination of drugs and their metabolites in the lower nanogram per litre range, most of them using solid-phase extraction (SPE) or solid-phase microextraction (SPME), derivatisation and finally gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS), gas chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (GC-MS/MS) and liquid chromatography electrospray tandem mass spectrometry (LC-ES/MS/MS). Due to the elevated polarity of non-steroidal anti-inflamatory drugs (NSAIDs), analytical techniques based on either liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (LC-MS) and gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC-MS) after a previous derivatisation step are essential. The most advanced aspects of current GC-MS, GC-MS/MS and LC-MS/MS methodologies for NSAID analysis are presented.

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Acknowledgements

This work has been supported by the EU through the project NORMAN (Contract No. 018486). Marinella Farré thanks the support from the MINISTERIO DE EDUCACIÓN y CIENCIA through the Juan de la Cierva program. This article reflects only the authors’ views and the EU is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

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  1. Department of Environmental Chemistry, IIQAB-CSIC, C/ Jordi Girona 18-26, 08034, Barcelona, Spain

    M. Farré, M. Petrovic & D. Barceló

  2. Sensors and Biosensors Group, Department of Analytical Chemistry, UAB, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain

    M. Farré

  3. Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avanzats (ICREA), 08010, Barcelona, Spain

    M. Petrovic

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Farré, M., Petrovic, M. & Barceló, D. Recently developed GC/MS and LC/MS methods for determining NSAIDs in water samples. Anal Bioanal Chem 387, 1203–1214 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-006-0936-x

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