Quantitation of Fentanyl and Metabolites from Liver Tissue Using a Validated QuEChERS Extraction and LC–MS-MS Analysis

Author:

Cox Joseph1,Train Alex1,Field Avery1,Ott Colby1,DelTondo Joseph2,Kraner James3,Bailey Kristen3,Gebhardt Myron3,Arroyo-Mora Luis E1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Forensic and Investigative Science, West Virginia University, 1600 University Avenue, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA

2. Department of Pathology, Allegheny General Hospital, 320 E. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15212, USA

3. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, 619 Virginia Street West, Charleston, WV 25302, USA

Abstract

Abstract According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), more than one hundred people die every day from opioid overdose. Overdose fatalities have risen as the availability of potent synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl, has increased. A forensic postmortem toxicological specimen is often in various stages of decomposition, experiencing autolysis and putrefaction, which complicates the extraction, creating a difficult challenge for toxicologists. Isolating the target drug, while creating an efficient and simplified analytical scheme, is a goal for most toxicology laboratories. The validation of a quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged and safe extraction protocol is presented in this study as an alternative analytical method for efficient extraction and detection of fentanyl and its major metabolites: norfentanyl and despropionyl fentanyl (4-ANPP). The liquid Chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry analysis was validated following the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Standards Board (ASB) standard 036 proposed requirements. Evaluated parameters include selectivity, matrix effects (MEs), linearity, processed sample stability, bias, precision and proof of applicability using liver samples from authentic postmortem cases. MEs (represented as percent ionization suppression or enhancement) at low and high concentrations were −10.0% and 1.4% for fentanyl, −2.1% and −0.3% for 4-ANPP and 3.1% and 2.8% for norfentanyl, respectively. Bias for the three analytes ranged from −8.5% to −19.9% for the low concentrations, −3.6% to −14.7% for the medium concentrations and 1.5% to −16.1% for the high concentrations with all being within the ±20% guideline. Precision for the three analytes ranged from 2.2% to 15.1%. The linear range for the fentanyl and norfentanyl was 0.5–100 and 4-ANPP had a linear range of 0.4–80 μg/kg. The authentic postmortem liver samples ranged in fentanyl concentrations from 56.6 to 462.3 μg/kg with a mean of 149.2 μg/kg (n = 10). The range of norfentanyl concentrations were 1.9 to 50.0 μg/kg with a mean of 14.1 μg/kg (n = 10). The range of 4-ANPP concentrations were 3.2 to 23.7 μg/kg with a mean of 7.5 μg/kg (n = 7).

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Chemical Health and Safety,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis,Toxicology,Environmental Chemistry,Analytical Chemistry

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