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PubMed1983

[Benz(a)pyrene levels in medicinal plants and the possibility of contamination of drugs of plant origin].

Benz(a)pyrene (BP) levels in extracts and solvent cake obtained by alcoholic and aqueous extraction of specimens of 20 different medicinal plants were measured to explore into the possibility of its passage from these plants to drugs. Seventy percent alcoholic extracts were found to contain 40-60% of BP passed from raw material, while aqueous extracts--2-3% (in some cases 10-14%). Maximal concentrations of BP in alcoholic extracts were 0.6-0.7 micrograms/1 and 0.03-0.04 micrograms/1--in aqueous ones. A significant correlation between BP level in extracts and its content in plants was established. BP pathways in the course of solasodine manufacturing from nightshade (Solanum lacinatum) were studied. As little as 1% of BP passed to extract after primary extraction in 2%--sulfuric acid. Solasodine contained about 3 micrograms/kg of BP.

Benzopyrenes↗
PubMed1979

Carcinogenic N-nitrosodimethylamine as a contamination in drugs containing 4-dimethylamino-2,3-dimethyl-1-phenyl-3-pyrazolin-5-one (amidopyrine, aminophenazone).

A total of 68 commercially available drugs containing amidopyrine were investigated for contamination with the strong carcinogen N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA). All samples contained varying amounts of NDMA. About half of the drugs contained 1--10 micrograms/kg, 40% contained 11--50 micrograms/kg, 7% contained 51--10 micrograms/kg and one sample had 370 micrograms/kg. NDMA-contents in batches of pure amidopyrine that had been utilized for preparation of drugs were higher than those in the respective drugs: about one-third was in the range of 20--50 micrograms/kg, one-third had 51--100 micrograms/kg, and one-third was above 100 micrograms/kg. There was, however, no correlation between NDMA-contents of batches of the pure substance and NDMA-contents of the drugs prepared from these batched. NDMA concentrations in the samples were inhomogenously distributed. It could be demonstrated that amidopyrine in substance reacts extremely rapidly with nitrogen oxides from the air to form NDMA. Ascorbic acid, which prevents nitrosamine formation in aqueous-acidic solution, under these conditions had no protective effect.

Aminopyrine↗
PubMed1972

Tentative method for the qualitative detection and quantitative assessment of air contamination by drugs.

A method for detecting and measuring air contamination by drugs is described which uses an electrostatic bacterial air sampler, sprayers for micronizing drugs, and Mueller-Hinton medium seeded with a highly susceptible strain of Sarcina lutea. Three antibiotics (penicillin, tetracycline, aminosidine) and a sulfonamide (sulfapyrazine) were identified by pretreating portions of medium, showing no bacterial growth, with penicillinase or p-aminobenzoic acid solution and subsequently determining how both drug(-) susceptible and drug-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus were affected by this pretreatment. Quantitative determinations were also attempted by measuring the size of the inhibition zones.

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PubMed1995

Monitoring exposure of hospital personnel handling cytostatic drugs and contaminated materials.

A study was undertaken to evaluate the urine mutagenicity of 63 individuals working in four hospital departments. The exposed group included 38 subjects who were exposed to various cytostatic drugs and/or contaminated material from treated patients. The control group included 25 individuals of the hospital personnel. Urine mutagenicity was monitored by the Ames test using tester strains TA 98 + S9 Mix and TA 102-S9 Mix. Urine samples were collected before and after the working periods. A total of 29/116 (25%) urine samples were mutagenic for either strain. Among the mutagenic samples, 24/29 were mutagenic for tester strain TA 98 exclusively. No significant correlation could be found between occupational exposure to cytostatic drugs and urine mutagenicity evaluated by the strain TA 98 + S9 Mix. Smoking was the main environmental factor that modulated urine mutagenicity with TA 98. Three subjects in the exposed group had mutagenic urine samples at the end of the working period with strain TA 102-S9 Mix. This mutagenicity was related to occupational exposure to cisplatin. In the control group, one individual had mutagenic samples before and after the working period. Assessing occupational exposure to cytostatic drugs with strain TA 102 requires additional studies to determine environmental mutagens which can be detected by this strain.

Adult↗
PubMed2003

[Photometric determination of iron contamination of drugs and biological matrices].

The Ph. Eur. detects colorimetrically the limiting value of iron by formation of a complex with thioglycolic acid in ammoniacal solution. This reaction was rechecked by experiments. Contrary to the literature a solvated Fe(II)-complex will be formed due to the reduction of Fe(III) by the present thioglycolic acid. A supposed oxidation of the Fe(II)-complex by atmospheric oxygen does not occur. For the routine determination of traces of iron in medicinal substances and biological matrixes a VIS-method was developed based on the measurement of the absorption of the complex at 534 nm in the range of 10-100 ppm after graded oxidative decomposition with conc. sulfuric acid/H2O2 30%. This assay needs a calibration mixture or in the case of a higher demand of accuracy a calibration curve with at least five measuring points. Because of the contamination of commercially available reagents a blank value must be determined.

Biological Factors↗
PubMed1994

[Determination of E. coli with MUG (Fluorocult)-lauryl sulfate broth for the testing of microbial contamination in drugs].

A test method for the determination of Escherichia coli in plant materials with the MUG (Fluorocult)-lauryl sulfate broth is described. It was found that more than 75% of the commonly used vegetable drugs exhibit fluorescence quench effects to different degrees when determining E. coli with the MUG-lauryl sulfate broth. Therefore a simple combination of two procedures was evaluated in order to avoid the matrix interferences: in a first step the drug sample was diluted eight times in a proportion of 1:10 with MUG-lauryl sulfate broth in eight separate tubes from 1 g down to 10(-7) g/tube (1st test series) and the resulting samples were incubated for 40 h at 36 degrees C. Subsequently, the tubes were tested for fluorescence. If the first tube of this series was found without fluorescence, in a second step a subsequent series of MUG-lauryl sulfate broth (2nd test series) was inoculated with 0.5 ml of the incubated culture from each of the first three tubes of series 1 and incubated again for 24 h at 36 degrees C. The results were evaluated from gas production, fluorescence as well as indole formation. Thus, the method allowed a simple and reproducible enumeration of E. coli for the test on microbial contamination in medicinal plant materials. The method was successfully applied to samples of 38 vegetable drugs for quantitative determination of E. coli (8 samples were found being contaminated with E. coli).

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PubMed1988

Studies on contamination of vegetable drugs with halogen derivative pesticides. Part 1: Changes of concentrations of halogen derivatives in herbal raw materials within the period of 1980-1984.

Levels of concentration of halogen derivatives (p,p'-DDT with metabolites p,p'-DDD and p,p'-DDE, HCH, DMDT, aldrin, dieldrin) and their changes in herbal raw materials commercially manufactured in Poland within the period of 1980-1984 have been analyzed (qualitative analyses by TLC, quantitation by GLC). Higher levels of these compounds in 1982 as compared with the periods of 1980-1981 and 1983-1984 has been noticed.

Chromatography, Gas↗