Development and validation of a quantitative UHPLC-MS/MS method for selected brominated flame retardants in food
2018
Malysheva, Svetlana V. | Goscinny, Séverine | Malarvannan, Govindan | Poma, Giulia | Andjelkovic, Mirjana | Voorspoels, Stefan | Covaci, Adrian | Van Loco, Joris
An ultra-high performance liquid chromatography – tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS) method was developed and validated (in-house) for the quantification of selected brominated flame retardants (BFRs), including tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA), hexabromocyclododecanes (HBCDs), tetrabromobisphenol S (TBBPS) and bromophenols (BPs), in various food matrices. The sample preparation consisted of extraction of TBBPS with acidified acetonitrile followed by a fast dispersive solid-phase extraction (dSPE) clean-up and extraction of the other BFRs with a mixture of hexane and dichloromethane (1:1, v/v) with subsequent clean-up using acidified silica (44%, w/w). The limits of quantification of the method varied widely for the types of food matrices and the different classes of BFRs from 4 pg g⁻¹ wet weight (ww) to 8 ng g⁻¹ ww. For most of the analytes the apparent recovery was in the range 70–120%, and the method precision (under repeatability conditions) was below 20%. The method was successfully applied in proficiency testing exercises as well as for analysis of various food items. Only 25% of the collected food samples contained BFRs, with 4-bromophenol and α-HBCD as the only detected compounds. The contaminated foodstuffs were fish and eggs with concentrations in the range from 48 to 305 pg g⁻¹ ww.
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