“…On comparing off-line SPE and DLLME with on-line SPE, they are somehow tedious and subject to sample loss and contamination. Since on-line SPE, which utilizes a column switching valve to combine a SPE column in parallel with an analytical LC column, has advantages over all the other sample preparations described above, on-line SPE coupled to LC-MS has been applied for the determination of illicit or therapeutic drugs, 27,28 antibiotics or macrolide antibiotics, [29][30][31][32] pesticides, 33 and steroids 34 in environmental water, biological uids, milk, and cell cultures. However, there is no record shown in the literature that online SPE coupled to LC-MS has been applied for the determination of macrolide lactone-type veterinary drug residues in milk.…”