Desenvolvimento e validação de método multiresíduos de carbamatos em pimentão

Abstract

The use of agrochemicals have brought enormous benefits in terms of increasing production and quality of agricultural products. However, the indiscriminate use of agrochemicals represents a risk to human health, being the food intake one of the main forms of exposure to these toxic substances. An analytical method for the determination of 10 carbamates (aldicarb, aldicarb sulfoxide, aldicarb sulfone, carbaryl, carbofuran, 3-hydroxycarbbofuran, methiocarb, methomyl, oxamyl and propoxur) was developed and validated in green chillies sold in the city of Natal / RN. The development of the method consisted of manual Solid Phase Extraction followed by High Performance Liquid Chromatography coupled with photodiode arrangement detector for the UV-Visible region. In the validation the sensitivity, linearity, precision, accuracy, detection limit, quantification limit and robustness were evaluated. The analytical curves showed linearity between 0.1 and 1.1 mg L-1 for aldicarb sulfone, propoxur, carbaryl and 3-hydroxycarbofuran, between 0.1 and 0.9 mg L-1 for carbofuran and between 0.3 and 1.1 mg L-1 for the aldicarb sulfoxide, oxamyl, methomyl, aldicarb and methiocarb. The correlation coefficients ranged from 0.9599 to 0.9939. The detection limit (DL) was between 0.0216 and 0.1319 mg L-1 and the quantification limit (LQ) was between 0.0719 and 0.4395. The method also showed good accuracy, with all relative standard deviation values lower than 20%. The extraction that presented the best result was the one that did not contain activated carbon, but had the presence of the acetic acid buffer. It was possible to recover aldicarb sulfoxide, 74.8%, oxamyl, 110.0%, methomyl, 151.0%, and aldicarb, 55.0%