Comparative study on determination of fumagillin in fish by normal and reversed phase chromatography

Abstract

Fumagillin is an antibiotic agent mostly used in the veterinary profession. A normal-phase liquid chromatographic method was developed for the determination of this drug in fish matrices. A hexane-dichloromethanedioxan-2-PrOH-acetic acid (43:43:9:5:0.1 v/v %) eluent was used on a Perkin Elmer silica gel column. For validation of the process a reversed-phase HPLC method was also developed (eluent: acetonitrile-water-bicyclohyxylamine 70:30:0.05 v/v %, with Spherisorb ODS, as stationary phase). Recovery is about 100% and the limit of detection is 5 ng g−1 for meat samples.