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

Table 3.

Table of previously published detection limits in ng/ml for the analysis of zeranol mycoestrogens by LC-triple quadrupole MS instrumentation

Reference [53] [54] [55] [56] [57] [35] [49] [13]
Matrix analyzed Bovine urine Bovine follicular fluids Animal-derived foods (i.e., pork, eggs, milk) Animal urine Human urine Homogenized pork, fish, milk, liver Human urine Human serum
MS instrumentation Micromass Quattro Ultima tandem MS (Waters) API 2000 (AB Sciex) TSQ quantum triple stage quadrupole (TS) Linear ion trap quadrupole QTRAP5500 (Sciex) Varian 1200-L Quadrupole (Agilent) API4000 MS (AB Sciex) Quattro XEVO MS (Waters) Xevo TQS tandem quadrupole MS (Waters)
LOD (ng/mL)
Zan 0.12 0.1 0.11 0.02 0.15 0.03
Zer 0.18 0.1 0.04 0.03 1.12 0.04
bZal 0.3 0.1 0.10 0.03 1.6 0.02
Zen 0.03 0.01 0.1 0.18 0.002 0.03 0.2 0.02
aZol 0.03 0.02 0.1 0.11 0.01 0.04 0.61 0.04
bZol 0.02 0.02 0.1 0.13 0.01 0.04 0.91 0.06