Objectives A method was established for the detection of nine antibiotics in water samples by dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction coupled with liquid chromatography(DLLME-LC).
Methods After concentration, extracts were analyzed by LC.
Results The calibration curves ranged from 5.00 μg/L to 50.0 μg/L with the correlation coefficients of 0.998 1~0.999 4 for antibiotics. The Limits of Detections (LODs) and limits of quantification(LOQs) were in the range of (0.43~1.57) μg/L and (1.33~5.33) μg/L, respectively. The recoveries for antibiotics were in the range of 66.4%~94.0% with the relative standard deviations (n=5) of 1.5%~6.5%.
Conclusions The method was simple, sensitive and accurate, which could be applied to the detection of trace antibiotics in water samples.