Screening for illegal addition of sulfonamides in cosmetic products using ultra-performance liquid chromatographytriple quadrupoletandem mass spectrometry with precursor ion scanning
Sulfonamides(SAs)are prohibited substances in cosmetics.An ultra-performance liquid chromatography-triple quadrupole tandem mass spectrometry(UPLC-QTrap)method using precursor ion-information dependent acquisition-enhanced product ion(PIS-IDA-EPI)scanning mode was developed to screen SAs in cosmetics.Twenty SAs were investigated to identify their common product ions formed by collision-induced dissociation.Three common positive product ions,m/z 92,m/z 108,m/z 156 are selected for PIS analysis.Limits of detection(LODs)are 0.05-0.1 μg/g for all 20 SAs in 12 kinds of cosmetic matrix.Sixty samples are analyzed.An effective screening method using UPLC-QTrap with PIS-IDA-EPI acquisition mode is developed and successfully applied to screen for the targeted and untargeted SAs in cosmetic samples.
sulfonamides(SAs)cosmeticstriple quadrupole/composite linear ion trap mass spectrometry(QTrap)precursor ion scan(PIS)