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Agnieszka Fiszka Borzyszkowska¹, Ewa Olkowska¹, Lidia Wolska¹

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Analyzing pharmaceutical residues in soil requires careful sample preparation. This study optimized methods to improve recovery rates for 24 pharmaceuticals, crucial for environmental monitoring.

Keywords:

LC-MS/MS extraction technique filtration pharmaceuticals soil sorption ultrasonication

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Area of Science:

Environmental Chemistry
Analytical Chemistry
Food Science

Background:

Pharmaceuticals from industrial farms pose environmental and public health risks.
Accurate determination of trace pharmaceutical levels in soil is challenging.
Selecting appropriate analyte extraction procedures is critical for reliable results.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate five sample preparation procedures for determining 24 pharmaceuticals in soil.
To compare analyte recovery rates across different preparation methods.
To identify an optimized procedure for analyzing pharmaceutical residues in environmental soil samples.

Main Methods:

Evaluation of ultrasonication and filtration techniques to minimize analyte loss.
Comparison of analyte recovery for 24 pharmaceuticals using five distinct preparation procedures.
Application of the optimized procedure to soil samples from a poultry farm area.

Main Results:

Ultrasonication and filtration can lead to significant elimination (up to 100%) of certain pharmaceuticals like amoxicillin, ampicillin, and lincomycin.
The optimized procedure improved recovery for 15 out of 24 pharmaceuticals compared to the initial method.
Isotopically labeled internal standards enabled accurate analysis of problematic compounds with low recovery.

Conclusions:

Optimized sample preparation procedures are essential for accurate pharmaceutical residue analysis in complex environmental matrices.
Despite potential losses during sample preparation, methods using internal standards can achieve acceptable accuracy.
This research contributes to improved environmental monitoring strategies for pharmaceutical contaminants in soil.