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Supel QuE QuEChERS tube

Citrate/Sodium Bicarbonate Tube, pk of 50

Synonym(s):

QuEChERS

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UNSPSC Code:
41115712
NACRES:
NB.21

product name

Supel QuE, Citrate/Sodium Bicarbonate Tube, pk of 50

composition

magnesium sulfate, 4 g
sodium bicarbonate, 5 g (Cat. No. S6014)
sodium chloride, 1 g (Cat No. S7653)
sodium citrate dibasic sesquihydrate, 0.5 g (Cat. No. 71635)
sodium citrate tribasic dihydrate, 1 g (Cat. No. S4641)

packaging

pk of 50

technique(s)

QuEChERS: suitable

centrifuge tube volume

15 mL

application(s)

food and beverages

separation technique

ion exchange

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General description

Suitable for extracting ~10 g food/agricultural sample. The citrate is used to buffer the extraction to pH 5.0 - 5.5. At this pH, most acid and base labile pesticides are. The sodium bicarbonate is used to further stablize acid labile pesticides.
Dispersive SPE (dSPE), often referred to as the "QuEChERS" method (Quick, Easy, Cheap, Effective, Rugged, and Safe), is modern sample prep technique that is becoming increasingly popular in the area of multi-residue pesticide analysis in food and agricultural products.

Using the QuEChERS method, food/agricultural samples are first extracted with an aqueous miscible solvent (e.g., acetonitrile) in the presence of high amounts of salts (e.g., sodium chloride and magnesium sulfate) and/or buffering agents (e.g. citrate) to induce liquid phase separation and stabilize acid and base labile pesticides, respectively. Upon shaking and centrifugation, an aliquot of the organic phase is subjected to further cleanup using SPE. Unlike traditional methods using SPE tubes, in dispersive SPE, cleanup is facilitated by mixing bulk amounts of SPE (e.g., Supelclean PSA, ENVI-Carb, and/or Discovery DSC-18) with the extract. After sample cleanup, the mixture is centrifuged and the resulting supernatant can either be analyzed directly or can be subjected to minor further treatment before analysis.

Supelco carries a line of vials and centrifuge tubes containing pre-determined amounts of salts and SPE sorbents to support the most common method configurations used today.

Legal Information

Supel is a trademark of Sigma-Aldrich Co. LLC

Storage Class Code

13 - Non Combustible Solids

WGK

WGK 1

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable


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JAN Code

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Mohammad Faraji et al.
Food chemistry, 240, 634-641 (2017-09-28)
A QuEChERS based methodology was developed for the simultaneous identification and quantification of acetamiprid, imidacloprid, and spirotetramat and their relevant metabolites in pistachio by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry for the first time. First, sample extraction was done with MeCN:citrate buffer:NaHCO
Maria Teresa Salles Trevisan et al.
Journal of chromatography. A, 1512, 98-106 (2017-07-20)
An analytical method using a quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged and safe (QuEChERS) procedure for multi-residue determination of 52 pesticides in coffee leaf extractshas been developed and validated according to SANTE/11945/2015 guidelines. Different sorbent combinations for dispersive solid phase extraction
David Moreno-González et al.
Talanta, 128, 299-304 (2014-07-26)
In this study a fast, selective and sensitive multiresidue method based on QuEChERS methodology has been evaluated and validated for the determination of carbamate pesticides, in edible vegetable oils by UHPLC-MS/MS. A new clean-up sorbent, Supel(TM) QuE Z-Sep(+), has been
Lijun Han et al.
Journal of separation science, 39(23), 4592-4602 (2016-11-03)
A novel carbon/zirconia-based material, Supel

Articles

SPE retention mechanism in this case is based on the electrostatic attraction of charged functional groups of the analyte(s) to oppositely charged functional groups on the sorbent.

Protocols

Retention occurs through polar interaction between the sorbent and analytes. Typical sample matrices that can be employed in normal-phase SPE include hydrocarbon or fatty oils diluted in a solvent like hexane, isooctane, chlorinated solvent, THF, diethyl ether, or ethyl acetate.

Related Content

QuEChERS is a ‘Quick, Easy, Cheap, Effective, Rugged and Safe’ sample cleanup method used to prepare food and agricultural samples for pesticides analysis. QuEChERS is based on the Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) technique of sample preparation.

QuEChERS method simplifies sample cleanup for pesticides analysis in food and agricultural samples.

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