Abstract
Urine lead level is one of the most employed measures of lead exposure and risk. The urine samples used in this study were obtained from ten healthy male cyclists. Dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction combined with ultraviolet and visible spectrophotometry was utilized for preconcentration, extraction, and determination of lead in urine samples. Optimization of the independent variables was carried out based on chemometric methods in three steps. According to the screening and optimization study, 133μL of CCl4 (extracting solvent), 1.34mL ethanol (dispersing solvent), pH 2.0, 0.00% of salt, and 0.1% O,O-diethyl dithiophosphoric (chelating agent) were used as the optimum independent variables for microextraction and determination of lead. Under the optimized conditions, R 2 was 0.9991, and linearity range was 0.01-100μgL-1. Precision was evaluated in terms of repeatability and intermediate precision, with relative standard deviations being <9.1 and <15.3%, respectively. The accuracy was estimated using urine samples of cyclists as real samples and it was confirmed. The relative error of ≤5% was considered significant in the method specificity study. The lead concentration mean for the cyclists was 3.79μgL-1 in urine samples. As a result, the proposed method is a robust technique to quantify lead concentrations higher than 11.6ngL-1 in urine samples.
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