A multinational research team developed a green, miniaturized CPME-HPLC-DAD method to simultaneously extract and detect four tetracyclines in human urine, offering a simpler, cheaper alternative to LC-MS/MS with improved sensitivity. LCGC International spoke to Fedra Vasileiou, Victoria Samanidou, and Abuzar Kabir, three of the authors of the paper that resulted from this work.
A recent intercontinental collaboration between two academic research laboratories—the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and the Florida International University, USA—has yielded a significant number of analytical/bioanalytical methods using fabric phase sorptive extraction (FPSE), magnet integrated fabric phase sorptive extraction (MI-FPSE), and capsule phase microextraction (CPME) for the isolation of various analytes from different complex sample matrices.
