TY - JOUR
T1 - Analysis of Pesticides and Toxic Heavy Metals Contained in Mosquito Coils
AU - Kasumba, John
AU - Hettick, Bryan
AU - French, Amanda
AU - Wickliffe, Jeffrey K.
AU - Lichtveld, Maureen Y.
AU - Hawkins, William B.
AU - van Sauers-Muller, Alies
AU - Klein, David
N1 - Funding Information:
Research reported in this publication was supported in part by the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health under Award Numbers R24TW009570 and R24TW009561. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2016/11/1
Y1 - 2016/11/1
N2 - In this study, 10 mosquito coils manufactured in China were obtained in Suriname, South America, where they are used extensively. The coils were analyzed for organics (allethrin, permethrin, and butylated hydroxytoluene) and heavy metals (Cr, Co, As, Cd, and Pb) by GC-MS and ICP-MS, respectively. Allethrin was the only target organic compound detected in all mosquito coils with concentrations ranging from ~1900 to ~4500 µg/g. The concentrations of heavy metals varied as follows (in µg/g): Cr: 2.9–9.4, Co: 0.1–1.2, Cu: 0.7–16.1, Se: 0.10–0.4, Ni: 2.1–5.8, As: 0.10–2.2, Cd: 0.10–0.2, and Pb: 1.1–3.6.
AB - In this study, 10 mosquito coils manufactured in China were obtained in Suriname, South America, where they are used extensively. The coils were analyzed for organics (allethrin, permethrin, and butylated hydroxytoluene) and heavy metals (Cr, Co, As, Cd, and Pb) by GC-MS and ICP-MS, respectively. Allethrin was the only target organic compound detected in all mosquito coils with concentrations ranging from ~1900 to ~4500 µg/g. The concentrations of heavy metals varied as follows (in µg/g): Cr: 2.9–9.4, Co: 0.1–1.2, Cu: 0.7–16.1, Se: 0.10–0.4, Ni: 2.1–5.8, As: 0.10–2.2, Cd: 0.10–0.2, and Pb: 1.1–3.6.
KW - Allethrin
KW - Heavy metal
KW - Mosquito coils
KW - Permethrin
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U2 - 10.1007/s00128-016-1938-9
DO - 10.1007/s00128-016-1938-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 27699449
AN - SCOPUS:84989950247
VL - 97
SP - 614
EP - 618
JO - Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
JF - Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
SN - 0007-4861
IS - 5
ER -