Surface Sampling for a Pesticide in Dust and Small Spills of a Solid Dye

The aim was to determine whether a published sampling technique for loose soil on hard surfaces achieved acceptable efficiency at surface dust/soil coverages of 10-20 mg/100 cm². The sampler was a cordless personal sampling pump operated at 4.0 L/min connected to a cassette containing a filter, the cassette being also connected to a Tygon sampling probe that was moved manually on the surface to be sampled. Rhodamine 6G dye dust was evaluated at 10 mg/100 cm² coverage at flow rates of 1.0-4.0 L/min. Two National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)standard reference materials (SRMs) were used for pesticide experiments: SRM 2711 Montana Soil, and SRM 1649a Urban Dust. The efficiencies for these SRMs were determined uncoated, and coated with 1300 µg chlorpyrifos/g as a Lorsban 4E emulsifiable concentrate formulation. The 3-pass technique sampled both the pesticide-coated and uncoated dust and soil at >79 percent efficiency and at better than 16 percent coefficient of variation (CV) above 15 mg collected mass. Sampling at 20 mg/100 cm²

Keywords:

• Pesticide
• Surface Coverage
• Chlorpyrifos
• Spill
• Dust
• Soil