The pesticide and veterinary drug residues brought by large-scale agricultural production have become one of the issues in the fields of food safety and environmental ecological security. It is necessary to develop the rapid, sensitive, qualitative and quantitative methodology for the detection of pesticide and veterinary drug residues. As one of the achievements of nanoscience, quantum dots (QDs) have been widely used in the detection of pesticide and veterinary drug residues. In these methodology studies, the used QD-signal styles include fluorescence, chemiluminescence, electrochemical luminescence, photoelectrochemistry, etc. QDs can also be assembled into sensors with different materials, such as QD-enzyme, QD-antibody, QD-aptamer, and QD-molecularly imprinted polymer sensors, etc. Plenty of study achievements in the field of detection of pesticide and veterinary drug residues have been obtained from the different combinations among these signals and sensors. They are summarized in this paper to provide a reference for the QD application in the detection of pesticide and veterinary drug residues.

The aim of this study is to develop a new micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography with field amplified sample stacking for the determination of five kinds of macrolide antibiotic residues in milk. The main factors that affect the separation and enrichment of these analytes were optimized. The optimum running buffer was composed of 60 mM phosphate, 5 mM sodium cholate, and 1.0 mM cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide at pH 7.0. The separation voltage was 20 kV and the sample was electrokinetically injected at 10 kV for 120 s. The detection wavelength was set at 195 nm. Under the optimized conditions, the enrichment factor of tilmicosin, erythromycin, clarithromycin, roxithromycin, and tylosin were 866, 565, 908, 702, and 675, respectively. The limits of detection ranged from 0.002 to 0.004 mg/kg. The method shall meet the requirement of their maximum residue limits ruled by China, the European Union, the United States, and other countries. Practical applications The developed method has been applied successfully to the determination of the milk samples spiked at 0.05 and 0.1 mg/kg. The recoveries ranging from 72.8 to 93.7% demonstrate that the method can be applied to the detection of tilmicosin, erythromycin, clarithromycin, roxithromycin, and tylosin residues in milk.

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