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Polyurethane foam sampling for the determination of acetochlor in the air of workplace-gas chromatography

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The studies of Acetochlor mainly focus on the detection of environmental residues and the assessment of behavioral patterns in the environment, but there is little information on the studies related to Acetochlor occupational exposure. In particular, there are no reported methods for detecting Acetochlor concentrations in the air of the workplace. This research established the method about the detection of Acetochlor in the air of workplace. As for the desorption efficiency of other various tube filler materials and desorption solvents selected in the study did not meet the requirements of the study, the Acetochlor in the air was collected by polyurethane foam sample tube, and the sample was extracted by methanol solution and analyzed by gas chromatograph. Good linearity (R2 > 0.999), high repeatability (0.7–7.1%), good recoveries (93.5–107.6%) and low limit of detection of acetochlor (0.0006 mg/m3) was obtained. And, the samples were stable within 30 days. The positive detection rate of fixed samples in workplace was 59.4% (n = 37), and the positive detection rate of individual samples was 94.7% (n = 19). A validated polyurethane foam-gas chromatography method was established for the separation and analysis of Acetochlor. The developed method is simple, efficient and suitable for the determination of Acetochlor concentration in the workplace.

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This work was supported by the Jiangsu Province’s Outstanding Medical Academic Leader Program (CXTDA2017029), Health and health standards revision Project (20202002), Health standards preliminary research Project (20210201), and Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20181488).

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  1. Center for Global Health, China International Cooperation Center for Environment and Human Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, Jiangsu, China

    Mengyao Chen, Hao Chen, Xuexue Ding & Baoli Zhu

  2. Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

    Jian Wu, Zongli Huo, Xin Liu, Baoli Zhu & Feng Zhang

  3. Key Laboratory of Environmental Medicine Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Public Health, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210009, Jiangsu, China

    Huimin Wang & Guangzhi Yang

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MC and JW performed the experiments and wrote the paper. HC, ZH, XD, HW and GY collected the data and statistically analyzed the data. BZ and FZ designed the research and wrote the paper. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. MC, JW, HC, ZH, XD, HW and GY contributed equally to this work.

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Chen, M., Wu, J., Chen, H. et al. Polyurethane foam sampling for the determination of acetochlor in the air of workplace-gas chromatography. Chem. Pap. 76, 2375–2384 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11696-021-02040-9

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