“…Despite being prohibited in some countries, these compounds are still being used illegally because they enhance the growth rates in food animals. In recent years, different analytical techniques for the determination of β‐agonist residues in food have been developed to monitor whether these compounds have been misused; these methods include enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA; Wang et al, 2016), GC–MS (Caban, Stepnowski, Kwiatkowski, Migowska, & Kumirska, 2011; Wang, Li, Zhou, & Yang, 2010) and LC–tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS) (Jia, Chu, Ling, Huang, & Chang, 2014; Kang et al, 2014). These techniques are commonly used for the detection of β‐agonist residues in food.…”