TY - JOUR A1 - Grandke, Julia A1 - Oberleitner, Lidia A1 - Resch-Genger, Ute A1 - Garbe, L.-A. A1 - Schneider, Rudolf T1 - Quality assurance in immunoassay performance - carbamazepine immunoassay format evaluation and application on surface and waste water JF - Analytical methods N2 - Carbamazepine (CBZ) is one of the most frequently detected pharmaceuticals in water samples. For the determination of this anthropogenic marker, various immunoassay formats were tested and evaluated in order to identify the most suitable one. For these direct competitive assays, the analyte was labelled with the enzyme horseradish peroxidase (HRP) or alkaline phosphatase (AP), and seven substrates with specific detection properties were used. The quality criteria for the standard curves were fulfilled by all HRP assays and the chemiluminescence AP format. Furthermore, intra- and inter-plate coefficients of variation as a measure of the achievable precision were determined for the samples. The application of the AP assays to surface water was unfeasible due to CBZ concentrations below the quantifiable concentration range. Surface as well as waste water samples could be analyzed with the HRP assays. Here, the HRP assay employing the chromogenic substrate 3,3',5,5'-tetramethylbenzidine yielded the best results. PY - 2013 DO - https://doi.org/10.1039/c3ay40702k SN - 1759-9660 SN - 1759-9679 VL - 5 IS - 15 SP - 3754 EP - 3760 PB - RSC Publ. CY - Cambridge AN - OPUS4-28860 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -