Wide-scope screening of pesticides in fruits and vegetables using information-dependent acquisition employing UHPLC-QTOF-MS and automated MS/MS library searching
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- 作者：Zhibin Wang ; Yanzhong Cao ; Na Ge ; Xiaomao Liu…
- 关键词：Pesticides ; Fruit and vegetable ; Information ; dependent acquisition ; UHPLC ; QTOF ; MS ; MS/MS library
- 刊名：Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：November 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：408
- 期：27
- 页码：7795-7810
- 全文大小：1,741 KB
- 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
- 刊物主题：Chemistry
Analytical Chemistry
Food Science
Inorganic Chemistry
Physical Chemistry
Monitoring, Environmental Analysis and Environmental Ecotoxicology - 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
- ISSN：1618-2650
- 卷排序：408
文摘
This paper presents an application of ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (UHPLC-QTOF-MS) for simultaneous screening and identification of 427 pesticides in fresh fruit and vegetable samples. Both full MS scan mode for quantification, and an artificial-intelligence-based product ion scan mode information-dependent acquisition (IDA) providing automatic MS to MS/MS switching of product ion spectra for identification, were conducted by one injection. A home-in collision-induced-dissociation all product ions accurate mass spectra library containing more than 1700 spectra was developed prior to actual application. Both qualitative and quantitative validations of the method were carried out. The result showed that 97.4 % of the pesticides had the screening detection limit (SDL) less than 50 μg kg−1 and more than 86.7 % could be confirmed by accurate MS/MS spectra embodied in the home-made library. Meanwhile, calibration curves covering two orders of magnitude were performed, and they were linear over the concentration range studied for the selected matrices (from 5 to 500 μg kg−1 for most of the pesticides). Recoveries between 80 and 110 % in four matrices (apple, orange, tomato, and spinach) at two spiked levels, 10 and 100 μg kg−1, was 88.7 or 86.8 %. Furthermore, the overall relative standard deviation (RSD, n = 12) for 94.3 % of the pesticides in 10 μg kg−1 and 98.1 % of the pesticides in 100 μg kg−1 spiked levels was less than 20 %. In order to validate the suitability for routine analysis, the method was applied to 448 fruit and vegetable samples purchased in different local markets. The results show 83.3 % of the analyzed samples have positive findings (higher than the limits of identification and quantification), and 412 commodity-pesticide combinations are identified in our scope. The approach proved to be a cost-effective, time-saving and powerful strategy for routine large-scope screening of pesticides.