Determination of 3-phenoxybenzoic Acid in Urine and Exposure Assessment of Pyrethroid Insecticides to Human Being

Pyrethroid insecticide have widely been used for agricultural sector and residential environments. To assess the exposure of insecticide which is absorbed through skin the analysis of urinary metabolite is essential. At present, the urinary 3-PBA was analyzed using liquid-phase extraction. But LPE have many limitations, such as long pre-treatment time and low recovery. So, this study was conducted to determine the optimum conditions for analysing 3-PBA in urine using solid phase extraction. Furthermore, this study intend to investigate the relation of concentrations of pyrethroid, deltamethrin in air and 3-PBA in urine. The optimum condition for hydrolysis was found to be done with hydrochloric acid for one hour. The recovery rates of 3-PBA were $84.6%{\pm}1.2%$, $54.8{\pm}0.9%$, $99.8{\pm}1.2%$ with XAD-2, XAD-7, XAD-16 using as the aborbents and acetone as eluents respectively. But acetonitrle and methanol gave low recovery rate and methyl cellosolve could not elute the compound. The amount of acetone for elution were 6mL, 9mL, 3mL for XAD-2, XAD-7, XAD-16 as absorbents respectively. The non-absorbed rates was $0.8{\pm}0.5%$, and $0.7{\pm}0.3%$ under XAD-16, mesh size 140-200, amount of resin 1.4g and the flow rate of eluent was 0.1mL/min. In the concentration process, we obtained 11 times higher concentration of material. The amounts of urinary 3-PBA were. The LODs of 3-PBA and deltamethrin were 0.004 mg/L, 0.038 mg/L, respectively. The further research of minute monitoring which include spray pattern, environmental condition is needed And more research about the relation between total pyrethroid exposure and urinary various metabolite are also necessary.

요중 3-phenoxybenzoic acid 미량 분석 및 pyrethroid계 살포자 노출 평가

본 연구는 Pyrethroid계 살충제인 deltamethrin의 작업자 노출을 평가하기 위해 약제살포 환경의 공기중 농도분석과 아울러 인체내에 흡수되어 요중으로 대사되는 산물인 3-PBA의 최적 분석법을 확립하였고, deltamethrin과 3-PBA간의 상관성을 분석하였다. 3-PBA의 가수분해 최적 조건은 시료에 HCl을 첨가하여 pH1 로 조절한 후 $90^{\circ}C$에서 60분 동안 반응시켰을 때 이었다. 요 시료는 Amberlite XAD-16에 흡착시킨 후 acetone을 0.1 mL $min^{-1}$의 속도로 3mL에서 최고의 회수율을 나타내었다. 공기중 deltamethrin의 농도는 N.D. ${\sim}0.00079\;mg\;m^{-3}$이었고, 요중 3-PBA 농도는 $467.5{\pm}2.4\;{\mu}g\;g^{-1}$ creatinine이었다.