Vortex-Assisted Liquid–Liquid Microextraction for the Determination of Residual Sulfonamides in Meat Samples with Spectrofluorophotometer

A simple and fast extraction termed vortex-assisted liquid–liquid microrextraction coupled with molecular fluorescence spectroscopy has been developed and used for the detection of three sulfonamides (sulfadiazine sodium, sulfamethoxazole, and sulfaguanidine) in the meat samples. In the vortex-assisted liquid–liquid microrextraction method, 400 µL of nonanoic acid was used as extractant and directly injected into 10 mL centrifuge tube containing a derivative, which sulfonamides derived with o-phthaladehyde. And the extraction solvent was dispersed into the water phase under mechanical force with the vortex-mix. The polar side was reduced and the strong fluorescence produced at λex = 295 nm. Variable parameters affecting the derivatization and vortex-assisted liquid–liquid microrextraction procedure were evaluated and optimized. The vortex-mix substituted effect of disperser solvent in this procedure. The limits of detection were 2.0 ng mL−1 for sulfadiazine sodium and sulfamethoxazole, 0.5 ng mL−1 for sulfaguanidine with the relative standard deviations of the method ranging from 2.5% to 6.1%. And the calibration graph was linear from 5 to 5000 ng mL−1 with coefficient of determinations more than 0.9995. Recoveries of the three sulfonamides on spiked meat samples at different levels were 92.2–102.5%. Finally, the method has been successfully applied to the determination of sulfonamides from meat samples.