“…Several studies have reported various analytical methods for the determination of sulbactam in pharmaceutical formulations (Mahgoub and Aly, 1998;Aly et al, 2000;Pajchel et al, 2002;Blanco Gomis et al, 2003;Dinç and Baleanu, 2006;Hoang et al, 2014;Marwada et al, 2014) and human plasma and serum (Guillaume et al, 1995;Aly et al, 2000;Carlier et al, 2012); however, few methods have been developed for the determination of sulbactam in foodstuff (Li et al, 2014). The methods reported in previous studies included capillary electrophoresis (Pajchel et al, 2002), UV spectrophotometry (Mahgoub and Aly, 1998;Hoang et al, 2014;Marwada et al, 2014), fractional wavelet transform (Dinç and Baleanu, 2006), chemiluminometric (Aly et al, 2000), HPLC (Guillaume et al, 1995;Blanco Gomis et al, 2003), and ultra-highperformance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS; Carlier et al, 2012;Li et al, 2014). Although the method outlined by Li and colleagues (2014) had been reported to determine sulbactam in bovine milk, we still hoped to optimize the mentioned method to achieve better performance by (1) using organic solvents in our study to extract analytes and precipitate proteins without adjusting the pH value of the extraction solution; (2) lowering the method's detection limit than the previous study by replacing high volumes of elute with lower volumes of solvent after an solid-phase extraction (SPE) procedure; or (3) applying the isotope dilution method to the quantitative analysis so that the analysis in a complex matrix could overcome difficulties.…”