Methomyl in the blood of a pilot who crashed during aerial spraying.
An aerial-spray pilot died when his aircraft crashed while he was spraying methomyl. We measured the pesticide in his blood by gas chromatography with flame photometric detection and confirmed the results by mass spectrometry with direct liquid injection through a liquid chromatography interface. The whole blood methomyl concentration was 570 ng/mL.
Driskell
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Division of Environmental Health Laboratory Sciences, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia 30333.
Groce
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Hill
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D000060:Accidents, Aviation; D000328:Adult; D000336:Aerosols; D000337:Aerospace Medicine; D002849:Chromatography, Gas; D002853:Chromatography, Liquid; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D008724:Methomyl / Q000097:blood* / Q000506:poisoning; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D010783:Photometry
D000336:Aerosols; D008724:Methomyl