Spiked concentration (μg/mL)

      Measured concentration

       ± S.D.,

R.S.D. (%)

      Recovery (%)

20

19.963

0.803

           4.023

99.817

40

40.060

0.252

           0.628

100.150

60

59.934

0.219

           0.365

99.889

S.D.= Standard deviation.
R.S.D.=Relative standard deviation.
n=no. of replicates

Table 2: Recovery data for Paclitaxel spiked into a mixture of stressed samples (n=3).