The invention discloses a method for determining potential
genotoxic impurities in
esomeprazole magnesium by HPLC (
High Performance Liquid Chromatography), which comprises the following steps: preparing a
test solution: taking 30-90mg of
esomeprazole magnesium, precisely weighing, putting into a 10mL measuring flask, adding a proper amount of
methanol, dissolving a sample by ultrasonic treatment, diluting with
methanol to a scale, and uniformly shaking; preparing a reference substance solution: taking a proper amount of 4-methoxy-2, 3, 5-trimethylpyridine
nitrogen oxide, precisely weighing, quantifying with
methanol, and preparing the reference substance solution containing 14-170ng of 4-methoxy-2, 3, 5-trimethylpyridine
nitrogen oxide in each 1mL of solution; respectively carrying out HPLC (
High Performance Liquid Chromatography) detection on the reference solution and the
test solution, and determining the content of the genotoxic
impurity 4-methoxy-2, 3, 5-trimethylpyridine
nitrogen oxide in the
esomeprazole magnesium by adopting an external standard method. The method has the advantages of high separation efficiency, high analysis speed, high detection sensitivity and low detection cost.