Abstract
Wheat grains were treated with 14C-pirimiphos-methyl to generate bound residues for testing their bioavailability to rats. Bound residues accounted for 25% of the applied dose (50 ppm) at the end of one year. When the grain bound residues were fed to rats for 48 hours the animals eliminated 30 and 40% of the administered dose in urine and feces respectively, after 5 days. Radioactivity in some selected organs and blood accounted for 37% of the administered dose after 2 days, which gradually declined to 1% after 5 days. These data indicate that wheat-bound pirimiphos-methyl residues are moderately bioavailable to rats. In a 90-day feeding study, inhibition of plasma cholinesterase and brain acetylcholinesterase strongly suggest that the bound residues possess a toxicological potential.
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