Analytical pitfalls in hair testing

作者：Musshoff Frank^*; Madea Burkhard

来源：Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 2007, 388(7): 1475-1494.

DOI：10.1007/s00216-007-1288-x

• bioanalytical methods
• drug monitoring
• drug screening
• forensics
• toxicology

This review focuses on possible pitfalls in hair testing procedures. Knowledge of such pitfalls is useful when developing and validating methods, since it can be used to avoid wrong results as well as wrong interpretations of correct results. In recent years, remarkable advances in sensitive and specific analytical techniques have enabled the analysis of drugs in alternative biological specimens such as hair. Modern analytical procedures for the determination of drugs in hair specimens-mainly by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS)-are reviewed and critically discussed. Many tables containing information related to this topic are provided.

• 出版日期2007-8