“…Generally, classical STA uses a combination of multiple techniques such as immunoassays to detect substance classes (Camara et al ., ; Escobar et al ., ), gas chromatographic techniques such as headspace‐GC (HS‐GC) to identify volatile analytes (Snow and Slack, ; Schulz et al ., ) and liquid chromatographical techniques such as rapid emergency drug identification (Remedi TM ‐HS) coupled to UV detection or high‐performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) coupled to diode array detection (DAD) (Viette et al ., ; Madej et al . ) to determine nonvolatile substances. GC coupled to mass spectrometry (GC‐MS) and HPLC‐DAD techniques is routinely used for STA (Maurer et al ., ; Pragst et al ., ), but also multi‐analyte LC coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (LC‐MS/MS) and LC coupled to quadrupole time‐of‐flight tandem mass spectrometry (LC‐MS‐Qq‐TOF) based screening methods are of increasing importance in the field of the determination of pharmaceuticals in human biological samples (Dresen et al ., ; Lynch et al ., ; Broecker et al ., ; Johnson and Botch, ; Köhler et al ., ; Remane et al ., ,; Oberacher et al ., ).…”