A gas-liquid chromatographic (GLC) method is described for determining sulfonamide residues in animal tissues, with specificity for 7 sulfonamides. Residues are extracted from tissues with acetonechloroform, fatty substances are removed, and the sulfonamide residue is methylated with diazomethane in acetone-ether to render it amenable to determination by gas-liquid chromatography on an all-glass column suitable for direct on-column injection and a Ni electron-capture detector. Quantitation is achieved by external standardization. The method has a validated limit of sensitivity of 0.10 ppm with the corresponding control values for all tissues being less than 0.01 ppm. Satisfactory recoveries have been obtained for sulfamethazine in swine and cattle tissues. Specificity for sulfamethazine in the presence of sulfathiazole, sulfaquinoxaline, sulfadimethoxine, sulfabromomethazine, sulfaethoxypyridazine, and sulfachloropyrazine is attained by resolution of the respective methyl derivatives on the GLC column.

A gas chromatographic (GC) method has been reported for the determination of sulfamethazine residues in cattle and swine tissues. The extracts from this procedure were found to be directly amenable to examination by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS), allowing positive confirmation of an apparent residue of sulfamethazine. Chemical ionization mass spectrometry (CIMS) was chosen as the MS technique because it generated an ion indicative of intact sulfamethazine and fragment ions indicative of the amine functionality and sulfanil moiety. Positive ion (PI) chemical ionization mass spectrometry was adequate by itself for a confirmatory technique. Negative ion (NI) chemical ionization mass spectrometry alone could not be used for the confirmatory analysis of sulfamethazine, but it did offer a means to check the quantitative data from the positive ion analyses and provided complementary confirmatory data. Satisfactory recoveries were obtained for sulfamethazine in swine and cattle tissues at the tolerance level of 0.1 ppm. Apparent sulfamethazine residues in control tissues were less than 0.01 ppm.

Residue methodology is described for the determination of AC 217,300 residues in pasture grass and crop samples. After extraction and subsequent cleanup on an XAD-2 column, residues of AC 217,300 are determined by liquid chromatography (LC), using a reverse phase paired-ion chromatographic system and detection at 300 nm. The method has a validated limit of sensitivity of 0.05 ppm with corresponding control values for the commodities analyzed of <0.01 ppm. Apparent residues over 0.05 ppm can be confirmed by either gas chromatography with an electron capture detector (GC-EC) or gas chromatographynegative ion chemical ionization mass spectrometry (GC-NICI). The direct GC-NICI method circumvents the need for sample cleanup on the XAD-2 column, and offers a greatly simplified procedure that is useful for screening samples. Recoveries of AC 217,300 from the commodities analyzed have been satisfactory with all methods of analysis