Current Situation and Countermeasures of Antibiotic Pollu-tion in the Surface Water of the Yangtze River Basin in a Province of Central China

Antibiotics are widely used in the process of human medical treatment,livestock and poultry breeding,and aquaculture.With the excretion of urine and feces,they enter the water environment of human life and become an important source of water environment pollution.Antibiotic residues in the environment have high ecological and health risks.Through the pilot monitoring of antibiotics in the main stream of the Yangtze River,Chaohu Lake and the drinking water source of Hefei City,the current situation and impact of antibiotic pollution were analyzed.The results show that 32 kinds of antibiotics and their derivatives of the six major categories involved were detected to varying degrees,and the concentrations at some points reached 1.26μg/L.Finally,the prevention and control of antibiotic pollution in the surface water of the Yangtze River basin in a province of central China were summarized,and relevant suggestions were given.

Filtration assisted pretreatment for rapid enrichment and accurate detection of Salmonella in vegetables

Rapid detection of target foodborne pathogens plays more and more significant roles in food safety,which requires the efficiency,sensitivity,and accuracy.In this research,we proposed a new st rategy of isothermal-molecular-amplification integrated with lateral-flow-strip for rapid detection of Salmonella without traditional enrichment-culture.Th e designed syringe-assisted-filtration can contribute to simultaneous collection and concentration of target bacterium from vegetable samples in just 3 min,resolving the drawbacks of traditional random sampling protocols.After simple and convenient ultrasonication,samples can be directly amplified at 39℃ in 25 min and the amplicons are qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed with the designed lateral-flow-strip in 5 min.Finally,satisfied results have been achieved within 40 min,which greatly improve the efficiency while the accuracy is also guaranteed.Furthermore,all detection steps can be completed under instrument-free conditions.This method will hold great promise for target pathogen detection in the resource-limited district,or for emergency on-site identification.

Simultaneous determination of 6 carbamate pesticides and relevant metabolites in oilseeds and oil with the modified fast QuEChERS method by ultra-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry

A sensitive and reliable method was developed and validated for the simu1taneous determination of 6 carbamate pesticides and relevant metabolites based on the modified fast QuEChERS(quick,easy,cheap,effective,rugged and safe)method combined with ultra-performance 1iquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry(UPLC-MS/MS).The method was also applied in the analysis of 23 commonly consumed oilseeds and oil samples.The sample was extracted with acetonitrile for three times and then the extracted solution was filtered directly though 250 mg precipitated silica adsorbent(PSA)and 250 mg Cis The mobile phase was water(containing 0.1%formic acid)and acetonitrile.The extemal standard protocols were adopted to validate the method in terms of recovery,1inearity,precision,sensitivity,and relative standard deviation(RSD)under the optimized conditions.The linear calibration curves with different ranges were established with R^(2)>0.9973,limit of detections(LODs)ranged from 0.100μg/kg to 20000μg/kg and limit of quantitations(LOQs)ranged from 0.300μg/kg to 6.000μg/kg.The LODs meets the detection requirement for the maximum residue limits in practical samples.Meanwhile,the recoveries ranged from 60.2%to 116.6%with associated RSDs ranged from 0.33%to 5.35%in 10 oilseeds matrices and ranged from 61.9%to 116.9%with RSDs ranged from 0.30%to 5.02%in 13 oil matrices.These features do make the UPLC-MSMS an ideal analytical platform for accurate and high throughput analysis of carbamates residues in the complex matrix.