Woodsmoke marker levoglucosan: Kinetics in a self-experiment

• Authors: Hanns Moshammer , Stefan Weiss , Manfred Neuberger

Abstracts

EN

Objectives: Concerns on climate change are leading to the renaissance of wood burning and particulate exposures. Levoglucosan is used as a marker of woodsmoke in air and urine. Objectives: Contribution of data on urinary excretion of levoglucosan, to improve biomonitoring and source apportionment of woodsmoke. Materials and Methods: 1, 3, 5, and 7 hours after 5 mg of levoglucosan had been administered orally, urinary excretion was measured by HPLC and mass spectrometry. Results: After oral intake, urine concentrations increased rapidly, reached highest values after 3 hours, and after 7 hours approximately 70% of the administered dose was excreted. Conclusions: Urinary levoglucosan may be used for biomonitoring of woodsmoke exposure on the same day.

Keywords

EN

woodsmoke biomonitoring; levoglucosan; human urine; excretion

• Publisher: Instytut Medycyny Pracy im. prof. dra Jerzego Nofera w Łodzi
• Journal: International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 122-125

Dates

published

2012

Contributors

author

Hanns Moshammer

• Institute of Environmental Health, ZPH, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

author

Stefan Weiss

• Umweltbundesamt GmbH, Vienna, Austria

author

Manfred Neuberger

• Institute of Environmental Health, ZPH, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/S13382-012-0023-9

Biblioteka Nauki

2180106