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      Determination of endocrine disrupting chemicals and antiretroviral compounds in surface water: A disposable sorptive sampler with comprehensive gas chromatography - Time-of-flight mass spectrometry and large volume injection with ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.

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          Many rural dwellers and inhabitants of informal settlements in South Africa are without access to treated water and collect untreated water from rivers and dams for personal use. Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) have been detected in surface water and wildlife of South Africa. EDCs are often present in complex environmental matrices at ultra-trace levels complicating detection thereof. We report a simplified multi-residue approach for the detection and quantification of EDCs, emerging EDCs, and antiretroviral drugs in surface water. A low cost (less than one US dollar), disposable, sorptive extraction sampler was prepared in-house. The disposable samplers consisted of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) tubing fashioned into a loop which was then placed in water samples to concentrate EDCs and emerging pollutants. The PDMS samplers were thermally desorbed directly in the inlet of a GC, thereby eliminating the need for expensive consumable cryogenics. Comprehensive gas chromatography coupled to time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC×GC-TOFMS) was used for compound separation and identification. Linear retention indices of EDCs and emerging pollutants were determined on a proprietary Crossbond(®) phase Rtx(®)-CLPesticides II GC capillary column. In addition, large volume injection of surface water into an ultra-performance liquid chromatograph tandem mass spectrometer (UPLC-MS/MS) was used as complementary methodology for the detection of less volatile compounds. Large volume injection reduced tedious and costly sample preparation steps. Limits of detection for the GC method ranged from 1 to 98pg/l and for the LC method from 2 to 135ng/l. Known and emerging EDCs such as pharmaceuticals, personal care products and pesticides, as well as the antiretroviral compounds, efavirenz and nevirapine, were detected in surface water from South Africa at concentration levels ranging from 0.16ng/l to 227ng/l.

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          Journal
          J Chromatogr A
          Journal of chromatography. A
          Elsevier BV
          1873-3778
          0021-9673
          May 05 2017
          : 1496
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Department of Chemistry, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield 0028, Pretoria, South Africa.
          [2 ] Department of Chemistry, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield 0028, Pretoria, South Africa. Electronic address: yvette.naude@up.ac.za.
          Article
          S0021-9673(17)30452-1
          10.1016/j.chroma.2017.03.057
          28365075
          259907ec-d7ae-4242-a115-7afb74342257
          History

          Antiretroviral compounds,Disposable PDMS sampler,Endocrine disrupting chemicals,GCxGC-TOFMS,Surface water,UHPLC–MS/MS

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