Abstract
Bisphenol A (BPA) is a typical endocrine-disrupting chemical (EDC), which has been banned for food packing and baby bottle material due to its potential endocrine harm to human body. In this paper, an easy and rapid immunochromatographic assay (ICA) combined with the technology of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) was fabricated to improve the sensitivity and rapidity for quantitative determination of BPA. After 10 min of a quick chromatographic process, the specific Raman signal on T line of the test strip was measured. Compared with the traditional ICA, the SERS-ICA realized quantitative test and showed the limit of detection (LOD) was 0.1 ng/mL, getting approximately 300-fold lower. The method displayed high specificity and precision with RSD of 4.1%, and the test strip indicated favorable stability for two weeks without loss of activity. For river, tap and commercial drinking water sample, the SERS-ICA results were confirmed by HPLC, and the recoveries of spiked BPA were from 90.80-117.80%. It was shown that the proposed method takes advantages both of SERS and ICA, exhibiting high sensitivity, precision, stability, quantification and rapidity for field test, expecting a widely useful method for various small molecules in food safety, medical diagnosis and environmental samples.
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