<b>Desenvolvimento e validação de um método analítico para detecção de carbofurano e 3-hidroxicarbofurano em matrizes biológicas com finalidade forense</b>

Abstract

proveniente de fragmentos de, no mínimo, seis animais diferentes, de espécies distintas (cão, gato, porco, boi, rato, camundongo e ave), isentas de suspeita de intoxicação. Realizou-se a fortificação dessas amostras biológicas, previamente homogeneizadas, com soluções contendo o praguicida e seu metabolito, 3-hidroxicarbofurano, em 6 níveis de fortificação que variaram de 6,25 a 100 µg/mL. Pesticides are responsible for intentional or unintentional exogenous poisoning, in both humans and animals, because of their broad toxicity and prompt availability, not always legally. Carbofuran is a carbamate pesticide widely used in Brazil as an insecticide and nematicide for the control of agricultural pests. It is marketed in the form of beads, commonly known as "pellet". This pesticide inhibits acetylcholinesterase enzyme on higher animals, promoting toxic effects, which can lead to death. Considering that carbofuran could be implicated in cases of exogenous poisoning of animals, in the present study we aimed to develop and validate an analytical method for detecting and/or quantifying this pesticide and its Biological samples were fortified with previously homogenized solutions containing the pesticide and its metabolite, 3-hidroxicarbofurano, in 6 fortification levels ranging from 6.25 to 100 µg/mL We evaluated the following parameters for method validation: selectivity, matrix effects, precision, accuracy, calibration curve and residual effect, limit of detection (LOD) and lower limit of quantitation (LLQ). To establish selectivity of the method, we verified the responses of interfering peaks near the retention times of analytes, which were less than 20% of the analyte response in LLQ samples. As to matrix effects, there was no significant interference between the matrices analyzed. Regarding the precision and accuracy of the method, it was observed that the coefficient of variation (CV) and the relative standard error (RSE) did not exceed the ceiling of 15%. In regard to the calibration curve, the correlation coefficient (r2) presented values that equal or exceed 0.99 in different arrays to carbofuran, while for the 3-hidroxicarbofuran two arrays -liver and stomach contents -had a value of 0.98 while the remaining matrices 0,99. The liquid-liquid extraction recovery values varied between 74.29 to 100.1% for carbofuran and between 64.72 to 100.61% for 3-hidroxicarbofuran, and LOQ of 6.25 µg/ml. We concluded that the method was adequate to identify and quantify carbofuran and its metabolite in biological samples, with adequate sensitivity and selectivity, and the validation parameters are in accordance to the suggested limits for validation of bioanalytical methods, and, thus implanted in LADTOX.