The widespread use of drugs, including hormones, antibiotics, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, antidepressants and antifungal agents, leads to significant release of these drugs and their metabolites into wastewater.
Concerns have been raised about their potential to contaminate groundwater and surface water and to contaminate drinking water supplies.
Therefore, drug monitoring in aqueous samples is an important analytical task.
In this work, the compact capillary LC system, Focus LC Axcend, was interfaced with a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer, Ultivo LC/TQ G6465B Agilent, equipped with a Jet Stream Electrospray ionization source.