PFOS (perfluorooctane sulfonate) is one of the perflourinated organic compound, which persist as a residual compound in the coastal environments. Intertidal mud crab Macrophthalmus japonicus mainly inhabits in coastal and bay ecosystems in Indo-Pacific region including Korea and reflects to environmental changes. In the present study, M. japonicus were exposed to different concentrations of PFOS and various ecotoxicological end-points such as survival rate, elimination of appendages, changes of the crust and internal organ color changes were investigated. Interestingly, the PFOS exposure showed concentration-dependent decrease of survival rate. High PFOS exposure (30 μg L-1) showed a low survival rate of 24% at 168 hours. Further, in comparison with the controls, the rate of elimination of appendages was also considerably increased in a time dependent manner upon PFOS exposure. Notably, with progression of time, an increased exposure to PFOS, test species showed whitening effect in a concentration-dependent manner, whereas the crab crust color was unchanged in the control. In addition, change in internal organs color and their visibility (clarity) observed in PFOS exposed crabs compared to control. Taken together, we suggest, eco-toxicology end-points of M. japonicus exposed to PFOS gave important biological information which could be useful to identify toxic contamination in the marine benthic environments.

퍼플루오르옥탄설포네이트를 LC/MS/MS를 이용하여 분석한 결과 분석 대상물질의 고유한 스팩트럼을 얻어 정량 하여 머므름 시간은 4.33분이었으며 상관계수(R2)은 0.9998 로 양호한 직선상의 그래프를 얻을 수 있었다. 퍼플루오르옥탄설포네이트에 대한 분석법의 회수율은 99.84%로 전반적으로 좋은 회수율을 보였으며 또한 이 연구에 적용되기에 충분한 정밀도와 정확도를 가지고 있음을 확인할 수 있었다. 퍼플루오르옥탄설포네이트 정량한계 및 검출한계 는 0.03, 0.009 ug/L이었다. 따라서 식품 용기포장재에서의 분석에 적용이 가능하였다.