“…In response to the demands from regulatory agencies to better define the exposures of metabolites in humans and in preclinical species (U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 2008), strategies based on the application of NMR as a quantitative tool for metabolite quantitation have been proposed (Dear et al, 2008;Espina et al, 2009). NMR was used in the past as an analytical tool to determine concentrations of synthetic and biosynthetic products (Warren et al, 1976;Vinson and Kozak, 1978;Werner et al, 1997;Groen et al, 1998;Silvestre et al, 2001;Holzgrabe et al, 2005;Pauli et al, 2005Pauli et al, , 2007Pauli et al, , 2008Rizzo and Pinciroli, 2005;Diehl et al, 2007;Shao et al, 2007), metabolites, catabolites, and endogenous compounds in biological fluids (MaletMartino et al, 1986;Monté et al, 1994;Desmoulin et al, 2002;Orhan et al, 2004;Skordi et al, 2004;Moazzami et al, 2007), or impurities present in products (Hays, 2005;Malz and Jancke, 2006). The theoretical aspects and validation of quantitative NMR have been discussed and reviewed in the literature (Mackenzie, 1984;Evilia, 2001;Burton et al, 2005;Malz and Jancke, 2005).…”