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                    1- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Pharmacy School, Medical Tixicology Research Center, Mashhad, Iran , karimig@mums.ac.ir
 2- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacy School, Pharmaceutical Research Center, Mashhad, Iran 
 3- Ph.D student of Biotechnology, Pharmacy School, Mashhad, Iran 
 4- Pharmacist, Food Control Laboratory, Mashhad, Iran 
                    
                    
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                    Background: Methanol is a toxic aliphatic alcohol that is widely used in industry as a solvent. Poisonings occur from accidental or awareness ingestion of it. Objective: In this study, the amount of methanol in ten plant water was evaluated. Methods: Five samples from each plant waters that related to six factories collected and analyzed by spectrophotometric method. Results: The results showed that the highest (1477.7  23.8 ppm) and the lowest (79.4  3 ppm) amount of methanol was related to dill and egiptial willow water, respectively. Conclusion: Since, the chronic use of plant water may induce methanol toxicity, it is recommended to determine a safe limit for it.
                     
                    
                    
                    
                    
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Pharmacognosy & Pharmaceutics  Received: 2007/03/11 | Accepted: 2007/10/5 | Published: 2008/05/18