Gc. Gerhardt et al., DETERMINATION OF IONOPHORES IN THE TISSUES OF FOOD ANIMALS BY LIQUID-CHROMATOGRAPHY, Food additives and contaminants, 12(6), 1995, pp. 731-737
A liquid chromatographic method for determining residues of ionophores
in bovine, porcine, and avian tissues is described. Tissues were extr
acted with iso-octane-ethyl acetate and the extracts purified on silic
a solid-phase extraction columns. Monensin, narasin and salinomycin we
re detected by UV absorbance following post-column derivatization with
vanillin, and lasalocid was detected underivatized using fluorescence
. In muscle, kidney and far, all drugs were determined from a single s
ample extract. In liver, a separate extraction was done to determine l
asalocid. The detection limit for lasalocid, narasin and salinomycin w
as 5 ppb; for monensin it was 2 ppb. Average recoveries were: lasaloci
d-71.0%; monensin-94.3%; salinomycin-97.2%; narasin-94.1%.