“…On the other hand, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are unable to completely remove pharmaceutical compounds, and thus their effluents are also sources of these compounds in aquatic systems [2][3][4]. Therefore, residues (i.e., unchanged compounds and their metabolites) are continuously discharged into surface waters, where they can cause toxic effects Different analytical techniques have been reported for the simultaneous quantification of tramadol and its metabolites in biological samples, such as the brain tissue of mice and rats [22], saliva [23], urine [23,24], amniotic fluid [25], plasma [23,[26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39], and environmental samples [11,40], but reports regarding enantiomeric quantification are scarce.…”