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Abstract: Detection of traces from pharmaceutical drugs such as antibiotics in drinking water and foodstuff is essential for guaranteeing human health in some environments, and this has to be done with low cost technologies to be widely deployed in public services and industry. In this paper, we describe an ultralow cost (

Electrochemical sensor has been proposed on the base of glassy carbon electrode (GCE) modified with carbon black (CB) and pillar[5]arene (P[5]A). The characteristics of the peak currents were found to be sensitive to the incubation of the sensor in organic acid and DNA solution. The detection of n×(10−8-10−5) M of organic acid and down to (1-5)×10−18 g of DNA was attributed to the effect of the analytes on the aggregation and relative stability of oxidized and reduced forms of P[5]A. No signal interference with the alkali and alkali-earth metal ions was found. The electrochemical sensor was tested in the detection of specific DNA interactions, i.e. reactive oxygen species damage and intercalating pharmaceuticals detection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]