[Determination of Albendazole Metabolite in Livestock Products Using LC-MS/MS]

A method for determining albendazole metabolite (metabolite I) in livestock products using LC-MS/MS was proposed. Livestock samples were hydrolyzed with 6 mol/L HCl at 110℃ for an hour and defatted with ethyl acetate and n-hexane (1 : 1, v/v) mixture. Metabolite I was extracted with acetonitrile from the sample, and the extracts were salted out under basic conditions, allowing the acetonitrile layer to separate. The acetonitrile solution was cleaned up using a cartridge column packed with divinylbenzene-N-vinylpyrolidone copolymer bearing sulfo groups. The HPLC separation was conducted on an Inertsil ODS-4 column with a gradient formed from water containing 0.05% (v/v) formic acid and acetonitrile containing 0.05% (v/v) formic acid. To detect metabolite I, tandem mass spectrometry with positive ion electrospray ionization was used. Truenesses (n=5) of metabolite I from cattle meat, fat, liver, and milk spiked at the maximum residue limits or the 0.01 mg/kg were in the range from 83.6 to 97.9%, and the relative standard deviations were from 1.6 to 6.1%.