“…However, due to the presence of several concomitants in the urine samples, the use of efficient extraction techniques is necessary to avoid interference problems during the derivatization and chromatographic analyses. In this way, some specific techniques can be pointed out, such as liquid-liquid extraction [6][7][8][9], solid phase extraction [10,11], ionic exchange extraction [12], extractive derivatization [13], azeotropic distillation [14][15][16] and lyophilization [17][18][19][20], among others. However, when unspecific methods are used, some concomitants may remain [14].…”