• 대한임상독성학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.24-29
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• 2010

Purpose: Neonicotinoid insecticides are widely used as they have been proven by experimental studies to have low toxicity to mammals, including humans. As the use of neonicotioids increases, the number of patients with neonicotinoid poisoning has also increased. We conducted a study to investigate the clinical manifestations of neonicotinid poisoning. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the patients who ingested neonicotinids and who visited the emergency department located in Korea from March 2002 to February 2010. We reviewed the patients' age, gender, the amount of exposure, the elapsed time to presentation, the treatment and the outcome. According to the poisoning severity score, we divided the patients with a Poisoning severity score (PSS) of 0 or 1 into the mild/moderate toxicity group and the patients with a PSS of 2 or 3 into the severe/fatal toxicity group. Results: A total of 24 patients were analyzed. The most common clinical manifestations of neonicotinoid insecticide toxicity were gastrointestinal symptoms (66.7%) such as nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain and the others are respiratory symptoms (16.7%), cardiovascular symptoms (12.5%), metabolic imbalance (12.5%), renal dysfunction (8.3%), CNS symptoms (8.3%), and asymptomatic (29.2%). Twenty patients (83.3%) showed mild/moderate toxicity and 4 patients (16.7%) showed fatal conditions such as shock and mutiorgan failure. The mortality rate was 4.2%. In these fatal cases, the patients developed respiratory failure, hypotension, altered mentality and renal failure at the acute stage and they deteriorated to a more serious condition. This severe toxicity was caused by decreased renal excretion of neonicotinid metabolite, and this was improved after hemodialysis. Conclusion: Most patients with neonicotinoid poisoning and who showed mild toxicity usually improved after symptomatic treatment. However, some patients showed significant toxicity with respiratory failure and renal function deterioration, and intensive care needed, including mechanical ventilation and hemodialysis.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.1-5
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• 2019

Bee's population is declining and disappearing at alarming rate. There are many factors responsible for declining the population of bees including diseases, natural enemies, environmental conditions and pesticides. Insecticides play its role dramatically for their population decline and neonicotinoid insecticides are critically important due to their wide application for pest control. Keeping in view of above problem, effect of neonicotinoid insecticides on olfactory learning behavior in Apis mellifera was observed using Proboscis Extension Reflex (PER) method. In this method, bees were harnessed in centrifuges tubes and feed on insecticides mixed sugar solution after three hours hunger. Bees were checked by feeding on non-treated sugar solution to observe PER response. Minimum proboscis extension was observed for acetamiprid and imidacloprid with 26% and 20% respectively at their recommend field doses while it was maximum for dinotefuran and thiamethoxam with 73% and 60% respectively. Only 40% bees showed response when exposed at 1/10 concentration of field dose for imidacloprid and the least at 1/100 of field dose. At control (Sugar solution) about 90% bees showed PER response. Among these neonicotinoid insecticides tested, imidacloprid and acetamiprid were the most damaging which impaired the olfactory learning performance in Apis mellifera.

• 농약과학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.110-115
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 우리나라 소비자를 대상으로 우리나라에서 재배된 과채류 섭취를 통한 neonicotinoid계 농약의 노출량을 확률적 접근법을 이용하여 평가하였다. 농약 잔류량을 2009년에 수행된 과채류 중 neonicotinoid계 농약 5종(acetamiprid, clothianidin, imidacloprid, thiacloprid, thiamethoxam)에 대한 모니터링 자료를 이용하였다. Neonicotinoid계 농약의 총 노출량을 개별 과채류별로 구분하여 확률적 평가를 실시한 결과 neonicotinoid계 농약 5종의 총 노출량의 극단값은 0.087~0.236 ${\mu}g$/kg/day의 범위를 보였다. 확정론적 접근법의 결과와 비교했을 때 총 노출량의 평균치는 거의 유사하게 나타났으며, 노출량의 $95^{th}$ percentile값에 서는 확률적 접근법의 결과가 확정론적 접근법의 결과에 비해 38.8 ~ 62.0%의 수준으로 낮게 나타났다. 총 노출량에 대한 민감도 분석을 실시한 결과, acetamiprid의 총 노출량은 딸기 섭취를 통한 노출량에 크게 영향을 받으며, 특히 딸기의 섭취량 보다는 딸기 중 acetamiprid 잔류량 수준에 더 크게 영향을 받는 것으로 나타났다. 이는 thiacloprid를 제외한 나머지 3종의 neonicotinoid계 농약에서 유사한 경향을 보였다.

• 한국식품위생안전성학회지
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.312-318
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• 2020

LC-MS/MS를 이용하여 네오니코티노이드계 농약을 분석하는 방법을 연구하였다. 농산물 중 네오니코티노이드계 농약은 acetonitrile로 추출한 후 NH₂ SPE cartridge을 이용하여 전처리를 수행하였으며, 용출액은 0.1% formic acid를 함유한 메탄올/디클로로메탄 혼합액(5/95, v/v)를 사용하였다. 4종의 네오니코티노이드계 농약(imidacloprid, clothianidin, acetamiprid, thiacloprid)의 최소 검출한계 및 정량한계는 경우 각각 0.0001-0.0005 mg/kg 및 0.001 mg/kg 이었다. 농산물에 각각 0.2 mg/kg 및 0.02 mg/kg 농도의 네오니코티노이드계 농약 4종을 첨가하여 분석 시 회수율은 각각 90.7-100.9%, 94.4-99.8% 범위였다. 본 시험법은 신속하고 정밀한 분석법으로 농약 허용물질목록제도(Positive List System (PLS))제도 적용에 필요한 충분한 검출감도를 나타내어 유통농산물에 대한 네오니코티노이드계 농약 분석에 적합한 것으로 조사되었다.

• 한국양봉학회지
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.305-313
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• 2019

Honey bees (Apis mellifera) forage in agricultural areas, and are exposed to diverse pesticide poisoning. Toxic effects on Apis mellifera of different groups of pesticides were tested in the laboratory; fungicide (Metconazole), herbicide (Glyphosate), acaricide (Amitraz), organophosphate insecticide(Fenitrothion) and neonicotinoid insecticides(Thiacloprid, Thiamethoxam, Imidacloprid, Acetamiprid, Dinotefuran and Clothianidin). Commercial formulations were serially diluted from the recommended concentration (RC) to 10-6 times to carry out feeding and contact tests. Toxicity was transformed into lethal dose (LD50) and hazard question (HQ). The acute toxicity of pesticides showed similar patterns between feeding and contact tests. But feeding tests showed greater toxic to honey bee than contact test. The organophosphate and nitro-neonicotinoid insecticides were highly toxic with HQ values ranging greater than 1. However, cyano-neonicotinoids of Thiacloprid and Acetamiprid showed low toxicity. Even at the RC, 24 hr mortalities were 18 and 30%. The acaricide (Amitraz) showed intermediate level of toxicity at RC but negligible at the concentration lower than 10-1 times. A fungicide(Metconazole) and herbicide(Glyphosate) showed minimal impacts. The results imply that the selective use of pesticides could help conservation of pollinators in agricultural production systems.

• 농약과학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.104-109
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• 2010

우리나라에서 재배된 과채류 8작물 중 neonicotinoid계 농약 5종(acetamiprid, clothianidin, imidacloprid, thiacloprid, thamethoxam)의 잔류량을 모니터링 한 후 잔류량과 식품섭취량을 근거로 해서 확정론적 접근방법을 이용하여 노출평가를 실시하였다. 과채류 8종의 시료 240점에 대해 모니터링을 실시한 결과, acetamiprid가 가장 높은 빈도로 검출되었으며, 고추에서 가장 높은 잔류량을 나타냈다. 과채류 중 검출된 농약 모두 MRL을 초과하지는 않았다. 확정론적 접근을 통한 만성 및 급성 노출평가를 실시한 결과, 해당 독성 기준치에 50배 이하로 나타나 안전한 수준으로 평가되었다. 본 연구의 노출결과는 확정론적 접근법을 이용한 결과이므로, 향후 확률적 접근법을 이용하여 노출평가를 실시하여 과채류에 함유된 neonicotionid계 농약의 위해관리를 위한 의사결정 과정에서 주요하게 고려해야 할 부분을 평가하여야 할 것이다.

• 한국환경농학회지
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.106-113
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• 2020

BACKGROUND: Bumblebees have been shown to be very effective pollinators for most greenhouse tomatoes. Neonicotinoid insecticides are one of the most widely used pesticides in tomato crops in Korea. METHODS AND RESULTS: This study was carried out to investigate the toxicity of four neonicotinoid insecticides (clothianidin, dinotefuran, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam) to bumblebees based on the OECD guidelines (No.246, 247). The 48 hr LD₅₀ (㎍ a.i. /bumblebee) values in the acute contact toxicity tests were determined as follows: clothianidin, 0.467; dinotefuran, 3.741; imidacloprid, 3.967; and thiamethoxam, 0.747. The 48 hr LD₅₀ values in the acute oral toxicity tests were determined as follows: clothianidin, 0.005; dinotefuran, 0.056; imidacloprid, 0.325; and thiamethoxam, 0.018. The acute contact and oral toxicity of the test insecticides to bumblebees from most to least toxic was clothianidin > thiamethoxam > dinotefuran > imidacloprid. CONCLUSION: This study provided the basic toxicological data of neonicotinoid insecticides for bumblebees. In the near future, acute toxicity and mixture toxicity of other pesticides to bumblebees could be determined using this method.

• 농약과학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.15-21
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• 2011

본 연구는 QuEChERS 방법에 기초한 EN15662 buffer 및 dSPE, UPLC-MS/MS플 활용하여 경남지역에서 생산되는 대일 수출용 파프리카 내 neonicotinoid계 농약성분의 잔류성 실태 조사를 위하여 수행하였다. 6종의 neonicotinoid계 농약의 회수율 및 변이계수는 0.05 및 0.5 mg/kg 수준에서 각각 84.0~92.7(${\pm}0.0{\sim}3.8%$)과 95.1~98.9%(${\pm}0.9{\sim}5.2%$)로 나타났다. 분석에 사용된 95시료 중 90.3%에서 농약성분이 검출되었으며, 82.3%에서 2종이상의 농약성분이 검출되었다. 검출된 농약의 농도는 0.01~1.63 mg/kg으로 나타났고, 농약성분 중 dinotefuran 및 imidacloprid가 78.1 및 65.6%의 빈도를 보였다. 6종의 농약 중 thiacloprid가 8.3%로 분석된 농약 중 가장 낮은 빈도를 나타내었다. 그러나 검출된 농약의 경우 모두 한국 및 일본의 잔류허용기준을 초과하지 않는 것으로 나타나, 경남지역 생산 대일 수출용 파프리카의 경우 neonicotinoid 계 농약에 대한 사용이 안전한 수준으로 잘 관리되고 있음을 확인하였다.

• 한국양봉학회지
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.295-302
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• 2017

Avoidance behavior is an important life history strategy to survive hazardous environment. The experiment was conducted to detect the avoidance tendency of the honeybee Apis mellifera against commonly used pesticides in apple production. Choice test given only 50% sucrose solution and pesticide-mixed sucrose solution as food estimated the avoidance in laboratory. Most of the acaricides and fungicides tested were shown avoided. Among insecticides, honeybee showed strong avoidance to cyhexatine, carbosulfan and fenpyroximate but low to diflubenzuron, tebufenpyrad, and acrinathrin. Avoidance behavior to neonicotinoid insecticides showed bifurcated; highly avoided from thiacloprid, acetamiprid while less avoided from imidacloprid, thiamethoxam and dinotefuran. From the field study, abamectin, fenthion, amitraz and acequinocyl showed highly avoided while fungicide of fenarimol, acaricides of acrinathrin and phosphamidon, IGR insecticide of diflubenzuron, neonicotinoid insecticide of imidacloprid, and carbamate insecticide of carbaryl showed less avoidance in the field. These results partly explained high bee poisoning from carbaryl in apple flowering period, and neonicotinoids during season.

• 한국환경농학회지
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.220-230
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• 2023

Imidacloprid is a neonicotinoid insecticide widely used for insect control in a variety of crops. The evaluation of imidacloprid total residues in animal feeds derived from crop by-products is required to ensure the safety of livestock products. We performed simultaneous LC/MS/MS analyses of imidacloprid and its metabolites in five different livestock products including beef, pork, chicken, milk and egg from domestic markets. The methods for sample preparation and instrumental analysis were established by modifying QuEChERS method to meet the Codex guidelines. The methods generated 0.0035 mg/kg of the limit of determination (LOD), 0.01 mg/kg of the limit of quantitation (LOQ) and standard calibration linearity with >0.983 of the coefficients of determination (R²). The methods exhibited the recovery values of imidacloprid and its metabolites ranging from 65.66 to 119.27% without any interference between matrices. Imidacloprid total residues in the livestock products were found as values lower than the LOQ and maximum residue limits (MRLs). This study suggests that the methods are successfully applicable for the safety evaluation of imidacloprid total residues in livestock products from domestic markets.