A comparison between QuEChERS and other pesticide extraction procedures for honey and honey bee matrices is discussed. Honey bee matrix was extracted by solvent based procedure whereas solid phase extraction was the protocol for the honey matrix. The citrate buffered QuEChERS method was used for both matrices. The methods were evaluated regarding cost (equipment and reagents), time, accuracy, p...

Background:Extraction of drugs is one of the biggest concerns and the most important part of preparation and determination in forensic medicine. The lack of an easy, efficient and fast extraction method is the most important and most difficult problem despite the development of forensic centers and their being equipped with new diagnostic devices. In the present study, a comparison was conducte...

Fucoxanthin is one of the most abundant carotenoids and possesses a number of beneficial medicinal qualities which include its anti-oxidant, anti-obesity and anti-cancer properties. In this study, the photostability of fucoxanthin in extracts with different chemical profiles was studied. The extracts were obtained from Undaria pinnatifida, a seaweed rich in this carotenoid, using conventional l...

Four commonly applied extraction techniques for organochlorine pesticides, microwave-assisted extraction (MAE), accelerated solvent extraction (ASE), quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe (QuEChERS) extraction and ultrasonic solvent extraction, were applied on soil samples in order to evaluate their performances. The extracts were analyzed by GC-ECD and confirmed by GC-MS/MS. The MAE ...

A simple and fast lipid extraction method from human blood plasma and urine is introduced in this study. The effective lipid extraction from biological systems with a minimization of the matrix effect is important for the successful qualitative and quantitative analysis of lipids in liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-ESI-MS/MS). The method described here ...

QuEChERS stands for Quick, Easy, Cheap, Effective, Rugged, and Safe. This method is widely used to determine pesticides and was first introduced in 2003. Anastassiades and colleagues first introduced this method in 2003 to extract veterinary drugs from animal tissue [1]. Toxicology samples in forensic medicine are usually analyzed by Liquid-Liquid extraction (LLE) and solid phase extraction (SP...

An Agilent Bond Elut QuEChERS kit and ZORBAX Eclipse Plus C18 column were used to extract and analyze hormones and endocrine disruptors. Published by Springer. Multi-residue analysis of emerging pollutants in sediment using QuEChERS-based extraction followed by LC-MS/MS analysis Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 406, 1259–1266 (2014) Alexandra Berlioz-Barbier et al. Tags Bond Elut QuEChER...

The goal of this work was to compare Pressurised Liquid Extraction (PLE), which is usually used to extract drugs from soil, and a modified-QuEChERS (Quick, Easy, Cheap, Effective, Rugged and Safe) method. Furthermore, several clean-up methods were evaluated. Selective Pressurised Liquid Extraction (SPLE) and Dispersive Solid Phase Extraction (dSPE) used after PLE and QuEChERS, respectively, wer...

This application note describes the use of a quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe (QuEChERS) sample preparation procedure. The QuEChERS method employs an extraction and cleanup protocol for the determination of acrylamide with C3-acrylamide as the internal standard. The analyte and internal standard were separated on a reversed phase C-18 column (2.1 mm × 150 mm, 3 μm) by isocratic e...

A method based on the QuEChERS (quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe) purification combined with ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS), was optimized for the simultaneous quantification of 25 mycotoxins in cereals. Samples were extracted with a solution containing 80% acetonitrile and 0.1% formic acid, and purified with QuEChERS before bein...