NCJ Number
139923
Journal
Japanese Journal of Legal Medicine Volume: 46 Issue: 4 Dated: (1992) Pages: 276- 281
Date Published
1992
Length
6 pages
Annotation
An elderly Japanese woman and two other relatives were poisoned after eating lettuce prepared with Ethimethon Granule 6, a mixture of organophosphorus pesticides, disulfoton, and diazinon, instead of salt.
Abstract
All three victims were admitted to the hospital, where the elderly woman died 22 hours after ingestion; the two others recovered. Samples of disulfoton and diazinon in the lettuce were recovered and confirmed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. However, the blood sample collected during the autopsy did not reveal any traces of the organophosphorus pesticides. A metabolite of disulfoton, phosphorothiaolate sulfone, was detected by FPD-gas chromatography and confirmed through gas chromatography-mass spectrometry techniques. 3 figures and 6 references