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This digital document is a journal article from Analytica Chimica Acta, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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A multiresidue method for the screening of veterinary drugs in urine with ultra-performance liquid chromatography (UPLC) coupled to time of flight mass spectrometry (TOF) is proposed. The method covers currently more than 100 analytes belonging to different families of veterinary drugs. Urine samples are simply diluted and injected unfiltered into the UPLC-TOF. The short run time permit high-throughput of large series under a routine environment. The suggested approach includes the detection of some metabolites which are relevant to the urine matrix. The paper discusses the usefulness of metabolites as additional confirmation criteria for positive findings and suggests a revisiting of the identification point system in the light of additional resolution, as provided by the TOF and the UPLC technology. The proposed multiresidue approach was further broadened by monitoring drug group specific collision induced fragments (CID). Examples show the monitoring of generic CID fragments typical for sulfonamides and penicillines.