Article: Analysis of 39 drugs and metabolites, including 8 glucuronide conjugates, in an upstream wastewater network via HPLC-MS/MS
Journal of chromatography. 2021 June 30, v. 1176
2021
Abstract: Pharmaceutical compounds ingested by humans are metabolized and excreted in urine and feces. These metabolites can be quantified in wastewater networks using wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) methods. Standard WBE methods focus on samples collected at ... ...
Abstract | Pharmaceutical compounds ingested by humans are metabolized and excreted in urine and feces. These metabolites can be quantified in wastewater networks using wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) methods. Standard WBE methods focus on samples collected at wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). However, these methods do not capture more labile classes of metabolites such as glucuronide conjugates, products of the major phase II metabolic pathway for drug elimination. By shifting sample collection more upstream, these unambiguous markers of human exposure are captured before hydrolysis in the wastewater network. In this paper, we present an HPLC-MS/MS method that quantifies 8 glucuronide conjugates in addition to 31 parent and other metabolites of prescription and synthetic opioids, overdose treatment drugs, illicit drugs, and population markers. Calibration curves for all analytes are linear (r² > 0.98), except THC (r² = 0.97), and in the targeted range (0.1–1,000 ng mL⁻¹) with lower limits of quantification (S/N = 9) ranging from 0.098 to 48.75 ng mL⁻¹. This method is fast with an injection-to-injection time of 7.5 min. We demonstrate the application of the method to five wastewater samples collected from a manhole in a city in eastern Massachusetts. Collected wastewater samples were filtered and extracted via solid-phase extraction (SPE). The SPE cartridges are eluted and concentrated in the laboratory via nitrogen-drying. The method and case study presented here demonstrate the potential and application of expanding WBE to monitoring labile metabolites in upstream wastewater networks. |
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Keywords | biochemical pathways ; case studies ; chemical species ; drug excretion ; epidemiology ; feces ; humans ; hydrolysis ; metabolites ; narcotics ; overdose ; solid phase extraction ; urine ; wastewater ; wastewater treatment ; Massachusetts |
Language | English |
Dates of publication | 2021-0630 |
Publishing place | Elsevier B.V. |
Document type | Article |
ISSN | 1570-0232 |
DOI | 10.1016/j.jchromb.2021.122747 |
Database | NAL-Catalogue (AGRICOLA) |
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