Author(s)

Xiaoyue Shan, Bingsheng Yang, Yanpeng Shi, Siwei Tan, Ji Shao, Kewen Su, Ling Zhang and Haipeng Ye

Corresponding Author

Haipeng Ye

ABSTRACT

Benzene is a human carcinogen and its metabolite, Trans, trans-muconic acid (tt-MA) has been introduced by some environmental and occupational health regulatory associations as a biological index for the assessment of benzene exposure. This paper summaried and compared different analytical techniques, pretreatment methods and adsorbent materials for the determination of tt-MA in urine samples.

KEYWORDS

Urine, trans-gluconic acid, adsorbent