Research Article

Chemo-Profiling of Illicit Amphetamine Tablets Seized from Jazan, Saudi Arabia, Using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry and Chemometric Techniques

Table 1

Results of precision and accuracy experiments for intra- and interday analysis of the three quality control samples using the proposed GC method.

Concentrations of samples (μg/mL)% RSD of peak area% RSD of retention time% recovery ± SD

Intraday analysis5.0 (LQC)0.750.9299.4
10.0 (MQC)0.630.54100.2
20.0 (HQC)0.940.8898.5

Interday analysis5.0 (LQC)0.360.6398.2
10.0 (MQC)0.570.4998.6
20.0 (HQC)0.770.53100.5

n = 3; LQC: low quality control, MQC: medium quality control, and HQC: high quality control.