title: New protocol of dioxins analysis in human blood.
abstract: We developed a new analytical method for accurately determining concentrations of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) and non-ortho-coplanar polychlorinated biphenyls (Co-PCBs) at a blood volume of 5 g. The method consists of three major steps, the extraction of lipid from human blood by an accelerate solvent extractor (ASE) system, a clean-up procedure at a scale one-fourth that of the conventional method, and a sensitive determination method by a high-resolution gas chromatography/high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRGC/HRMS) equipped with a solvent cut large volume (SCLV) injection system as a large volume injection technique. By the improvement of the pretreatment method, the operation time and consumption of the solvent could be drastically reduced, and the sensitivity of the GC-MS with the SCLV injection system was increased to 10 times the level of the classical method. From the results of the PCDDs, PCDFs and Co-PCBs concentrations measured by the developed method and the conventional method using the same blood sample, it was confirmed that the measurement became possible at a blood volume of 5 g. The developed method is more effective than the conventional method for treating many samples within a short period of time with high reproducibility.
authors.affiliation: Japan Food Hygiene Association, 2-6-1, Jingumae, Sibuya-ku, Tokyo, 150-0001.
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Todaka
authors.forename: Hironori
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hirakawa
authors.forename: Kazuhiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tobiihi
authors.forename: Takao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Iida
mesh_terms: D004147:Dioxins / Q000097:blood*; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
chemical_list: D004147:Dioxins