June 2014

Determination of pharmaceutical compounds in surface and underground water by solid phase extraction-liquid chromatography

A solid-phase extraction (SPE) followed by high performance liquid chromatography method was used for extraction and analysis of 4 pharmaceutical residues (Diclofenac, Chloroquine, Paracetamol and Ciprofloxacine HCl) in environmental water samples. This method was successfully applied to environmental water samples from Sango-Ota, a high industrial community in Ogun State, Nigeria, for the determination of the targeted...

Author(s): Olatunde James Olaitan, , Chimezie Anyakora, Tolulope Bamiro and Aminat Temitope Tella