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Assessment of ecotoxicity and total volatile organic compound (TVOC) emissions from food and children's toy products
Abstract
The development of new methods for identifying a broad spectrum of analytes, as well as highly selective tools to provide the most accurate information regarding the processes and relationships in the world, has been an area of interest for researchers for many years. The information obtained with these tools provides valuable data to complement existing knowledge but, above all, to identify and determine previously unknown hazards. Recently, attention has been paid to the migration of xenobiotics from the surfaces of various everyday objects and the resulting impacts on human health. Since children are among those most vulnerable to health consequences, one of the main subjects of interest is the migration of low-molecular-weight compounds from toys and products intended for children. This migration has become a stimulus for research aimed at determining the degree of release of compounds from popular commercially available chocolate/toy sets. One of main objectives of this research was to determine the impact of time on the ecotoxicity (with Vibrio fischeri bioluminescent bacteria) of extracts of products intended for children and to assess the correlation with total volatile organic compound emissions using basic chemometric methods. The studies on endocrine potential (with XenoScreen YES/YAS) of the extracts and showed that compounds released from the studied objects (including packaging foils, plastic capsules storing toys, most of toys studied and all chocolate samples) exhibit mostly androgenic antagonistic behavior while using artificial saliva as extraction medium increased the impact observed. The impact of time in most cases was positive one and increased with prolonging extraction time.
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Vasil Simeonov prof. dr hab. inż.
- University of Sofia Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy
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Stefan Tsakovski
- University of Sofia Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy
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- Articles
- Type:
- artykuł w czasopiśmie wyróżnionym w JCR
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ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
no. 160,
pages 282 - 289,
ISSN: 0147-6513 - Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Bibliographic description:
- Szczepańska N., Marć M., Kudłak B., Simeonov, V., Tsakovski S., Namieśnik J.: Assessment of ecotoxicity and total volatile organic compound (TVOC) emissions from food and children's toy products// ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY. -Vol. 160, (2018), s.282-289
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- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2018.05.042
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- The work has been co-financed by the National Science Center, Poland, Grant no. 2015/17/N/ST4/03835. The support of H2020 program of the European Union (project Materials Networking no. 692146) is gratefully acknowledged by Prof. V. Simeonov and Prof. S. Tsakovski. Mariusz Marć is grateful for financial support from Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Grant no. 4914/E-359/M/2016).
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