Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Umbria e delle Marche ''Togo Rosati''

Authors  Barola C, Moretti S, Giusepponi D, Paoletti F, Saluti G, Cruciani G, Brambilla G, Galarini R

Abstract  An analytical method for the quantification of thirty-three perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in animal liver was developed applying the isotopic dilution methodology with twenty-one labelled isotopologues of native compounds. The proposed protocol involved the determination of short and long aliphatic chain PFASs (C4base C18base) extracting liver with acetonitrile followed by two clean-up steps. The instrumental analysis was performed with liquid chromatography coupled to high-resolution mass spectrometry. The acquisition method combined full MS/dd-MS², t-SIM/dd-MS² and SIM experiments with variable resolution in order to maximize in one chromatographic run accuracy, sensitivity and selectivity. An eight-level validation study was performed evaluating linearity, trueness, precision, quantification and detection limits. Trueness was from 94 to 126% with intra-laboratory reproducibility lower than 20%. Limits of quantification were in the range 2–100 pg g-‛, except for 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoro-2-(1,1,2,2,3,3,3-heptafluoropropoxy)-propanoic acid, HFPO-DA (500 pg g-‛). The analysis of a certified reference material (IRMM-427) and participation in a proficiency test scheme (FAPAS – 0687) confirmed these satisfactory performances. Finally, the application of the developed procedure to detect PFASs in sixteen liver samples of farm animals revealed that chicken was the less contaminated species.

Publish Date  2020

Volume  1628

ISSN    1873-3778

DOI   doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2020.461442

URL    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021967320307184?via%3Dihub

Journal   Journal of Chromatography A

Pages   art. n. 461442

PMID  32822981