Abstract:A method for the determination of five selenium species, namely selenocystine(SeCys2), methylselenocysteine(SeMC), selenomethionine(SeMet), selenite[Se(IV)] and selenate[Se(VI)], in selenium-enriched Songliao black pork was established by high-performance liquid chromatography-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry(HPLC-ICP-MS). Selenium species in the samples were extracted with Pronase E via water bath shaking at 37℃ for 6h. Using a C18 reversed-phase chromatographic column, with the mobile phase of 10 mmol/L ammonium acetate + 0.2 mmol/L tetrabutylammonium hydroxide + 1% methanol(pH 5.5), effective separation of the five selenium species was achieved within 8 min. The linear range of the method was 5-100 ng/mL with the linear correlation coefficients(r) all greater than 0.999. The detection limits were 1.88 μg/L, 1.58 μg/L, 1.13 μg/L, 1.09 μg/L and 1.05 μg/L, respectively. The recovery rates were in the range of 70.7%-98.4%, and the relative standard deviation(RSD) was less than 6%. This established method was applied to determine the selenium species in selenium-enriched Songliao black pork, which was found to be mainly composed of SeMet, SeCys2 and SeMC.