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http://dx.doi.org/10.7585/kjps.2012.16.4.343

Operator Exposure to Indoxacarb Wettable Powder and Water Dispersible Granule during Mixing/loading and Risk Assessment  

Kim, Eunhye (Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University)
Hwang, Yon-Jin (Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University)
Kim, Suhee (Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University)
Lee, Hyeri (Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University)
Hong, Soonsung (National Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology)
Park, Kyung-Hun (National Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology)
Kim, Jeong-Han (Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University)
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The Korean Journal of Pesticide Science / v.16, no.4, 2012 , pp. 343-349 More about this Journal
Abstract
Exposure and risk assessments were conducted to evaluate the relative safety of mixing/loading work of indoxacarb between wettable powder (WP) and water dispersible granule (WG). Hand exposure was monitored using cotton gloves while inhalation exposure was measured using personal air monitor. Method validation for the exposure monitoring was established successfully through several experiments. Limit of determination and limit of quantitation were 0.25 and 1 ng, respectively. $R^2$ of calibration curve linearity was more than 0.9999 and reproducibility was 0.7-6. Recovery of indoxacarb from gloves, solid sorbent and glass fiber filter at three different levels was 81.5-108.8%. Trapping efficiency and breakthrough tests gave 981.5-108.8% of recovery. During mixing/loading procedure, hand exposure amount (75 percentile of 30 repetitions) for indoxacarb WP was 6 folds (459.8 mg/kg a.i) than that of WG (81.4 mg/kg a.i). This result indicates that WG has less drift than WP thanks to its granular type of formulation. Inhalation amount was $10^{-8}-10^{-7}%$ of spray mixture prepared and $10^{-4}-10^{-3}%$ of hand exposure. In inhalation case, no significant differences were observed between two formulations. Margin of safety was calculated for risk assessment using male Korean average body weight and acceptable operator exposure level as the important exposure factors. Mixing/loading procedures for both of the formulations were considered to be of least risk because calculated MOS values were more than 1.
Keywords
Exposure; Indoxacarb; Margin of safety; Mixing/loading; Risk assessment;
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