Citation

Lee SK, Ameno K, Yang JY, In SW, Kim KU, Kwon TJ, Yoo YC, Kubota T, Ameno S, Ijiri I. Int. J. Legal Med. 1999; 112(4): 268-270.

Affiliation

National Institute of Scientific Investigation, Seoul, Korea. nisi@shinbiro.com

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10433038

Abstract

We describe here three cases involving acute fatalities due to benfuracarb ingestion and the forensic toxicological implications. Benfuracarb, a carbamate insecticide and its main metabolite carbofuran, were detected using thin layer chromatography (TLC) and gas chromatography/mass spectrophotometry (GC/MS) after extraction with ethyl acetate and then quantified using gas chromatography (GC) equipped with NPD. The blood levels of benfuracarb and carbofuran were in the range of 0.30-2.32 microg/ml and 1.45-1.47 microg/ml, respectively. Benfuracarb was not detected in urine, but carbofuran was detected in the range of 0.53-2.66 microg/ml.

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