5 Key Takeaways

• 1

  The gold standard for detecting anabolic steroids involves chromatographic separations coupled with triple quadrupole tandem mass spectrometry.

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  Current detection methods are targeted, making it difficult to identify novel or unknown substances due to their low-resolution capabilities.

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  Advances in high-resolution mass spectrometry and ion mobility techniques can improve the identification of unknown compounds and isomers.

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  Barriers to widespread adoption of new technologies include reduced quantitative performance, high implementation costs, and limited resolving power.

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  Collaborative efforts are underway to enhance quantitative performance and resolving power through innovative techniques and computational modeling.