Blood carbofuran concentrations in suicidal ingestion cases
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1Department of Forensic Medicine, Kagawa Medical University, 1750-1, Ikenobe, Miki, Kita, Kagawa 761-0793, Japan. amenok@kms.ac.jp
Abstract:
We describe four fatal cases due to ingestion of carbofuran, a carbamate insecticide. Carbofuran was detected in the gastric contents using thin layer chromatography (TLC) and gas chromatography/mass spectrophotometry (GC/MS), and quantified in the blood using a gas chromatograph equipped with nitrogen-phosphorus detector (NPD). Fatal concentrations of carbofuran in blood ranged from 0.32 to 11.6 microg/ml.
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