| A new extraction procedure based on combination of a solvent extraction and
deep eutectic solvent based dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction has been
introduced for the extraction of aflatoxin M1 from cheese samples. In this
method, acetonitrile, deionized water, and n-hexane are added onto the sample
and vortexed. Owning to different affinities of the substances in cheese toward
the mentioned solvents, an efficient and selective extraction of the analyte is done
in the acetonitrile phase. After centrifugation, the acetonitrile phase is removed
and mixed with a new hydrophobic deep eutectic solvent prepared from N,Ndiethanol
ammonium chloride and carvacrol as an extraction solvent. The mixture
is injected into deionized water, and a cloudy solution is obtained. Eventually,
an aliquot of the organic phase is injected into high-performance liquid
chromatography-fluorescence detection. After optimizing the effective parameters
with the response surface methodology and a quadratic model, limits of
detection and quantification were 0.74 and 2.56 ng/kg, respectively. The obtained
extraction recovery and enrichment factor were 94% and 94, respectively. Also,
intra- (n = 6) and interday (n = 4) precisions were less than or equal to 8.6%
at a concentration of 5 ng/kg. The suggested method was applied to determine
aflatoxin M1 in different cheese samples. |