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. 2023 Jul 11;415(20):4885–4899. doi: 10.1007/s00216-023-04791-8

Table 2.

Zeranol metabolite concentrations measured using a validated method on the Thermo Q Exactive HF Hybrid Quadrupole-Orbi MS collected from a cohort of pregnant NJ women. Zeranol concentrations have been corrected for urinary dilution by specific gravity as described by Bandera et al. [9]*. For measurements below the reported LOD, %CV has been recorded as an expression of uncertainty

Zeranol concentration in urine (ng/mL)
Sample ID bZal bZol Zer aZol Zan Zen mycoestrogen
1 nd 0.0454 0.0062 0.0968 nd 0.156 0.304
2 nd 0.0221 nd 0.149 nd 0.0871 0.258
3 nd 0.123 nd 0.511 nd 0.559 1.19
4 nd 0.0268 nd 0.0574 nd 0.0832 (28%) 0.167
5 nd 0.0247 nd 0.166 nd 0.179 0.369
6 nd 0.232 nd 0.948 0.0215 (7.5%) 2.85 4.05
7 nd 0.0136 (48%) nd 0.122 0.0051 (26%) 0.185 0.326
8 nd 0.0379 nd 0.0785 0.0020 (9.3%) 0.139 0.258
9 nd 0.0582 nd 0.0417 (1.6%) 0.0038 (6.6%) 0.0760 (9.9%) 0.180
10 nd 0.0222 nd 0.0588 0.0017 (33%) 0.112 0.194

Bolded values (%) = values approximated below the reported LOD using integrated peak area (%CV)

nd non-detect; no analyte signal was detected at the retention time

mycoestrogen = sum of all zeranol metabolites

*MycoestrogenSG corrected = mycoestrogen value/[(SG − 1) × 100]