CEN/TS 16178:2012

This Technical Specification specifies a method to analyse pharmaceutical compounds in sludge, treated biowaste and soil. Pharmaceuticals analysis has been carried out on a LC/MS-MS quantum. The main difficulty for analysis is the lack of sample certified for target analytes. Even with spiked solid matrices it is still delicate to correctly verify the impact of extraction step, because it is not commutable to a real sample. This document provides a final protocol on the extraction and purification tested on sludge, soils and sediments spiked with the pharmaceutical compounds listed in Table 1.