Richard Bade, Denice van Herwerden, Nikolaos Rousis, Sangeet Adhikari, Darren Allen, Christine Baduel, Lubertus Bijlsma, Tim Boogaerts, Dan Burgard, Andrew Chappell, Erin M Driver, Fernando Fabriz Sodre, Despo Fatta-Kassinos, Emma Gracia-Lor, Elisa Gracia-Marín, Rolf U Halden, Ester Heath, Emma Jaunay, Alex Krotulski, Foon Yin Lai, Arndís Sue Ching Löve, Jake W O'Brien, Jeong-Eun Oh, Daniel Pasin, Marco Pineda Castro, Magda Psichoudaki, Noelia Salgueiro-Gonzalez, Cezar Silvino Gomes, Bikram Subedi, Kevin V Thomas, Nikolaos Thomaidis, Degao Wang, Viviane Yargeau, Saer Samanipour, Jochen Mueller
The complexity around the dynamic markets for new psychoactive substances (NPS) forces researchers to develop and apply innovative analytical strategies to detect and identify them in influent urban wastewater. In this work a comprehensive suspect screening workflow following liquid chromatography - high resolution mass spectrometry analysis was established utilising the open-source InSpectra data processing platform and the HighResNPS library. In total, 278 urban influent wastewater samples from 47 sites in 16 countries were collected to investigate the presence of NPS and other drugs of abuse...
March 5, 2024: Journal of Hazardous Materials