Health risk assessment of dietary exposure to phthalates from plastic-coated paper among university students

Abstract

Plastic-coated paper (PCP) is commonly used as a takeaway food container in Thailand. This study aimed to investigate the phthalate content in PCP and to evaluate the health risk of dietary exposure to phthalates. Determination of phthalates, namely, of benzyl butyl phthalate (BBP), dibutyl phthalate (DBP), and di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), was carried out using a simple total immersion test followed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Consumption data of 430 students in a university were collected by a questionnaire for health risk assessment. The results showed that DEHP was the most abundant compound detected in the PCP samples, followed by DBP and BBP, respectively. The hazard indexes (<1) showed that the health risk to all subjects was acceptable, but monitoring of phthalates in PCP on market shelves should be performed regularly to protect consumers' health.

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“…On the other hand, in C5-3 an extension was made where signals corresponding to dioctyl phthalate are observed, phthalates are plasticizers and can be found in various marine organisms such as octopus (Cruz-Ramírez et al, 2015), turtles (Savoca et al, 2018), different fish species (Panio et al, 2020), amongst others. The presence of phthalates is related to anthropogenic pollution (Makkaew et al, 2022), nevertheless, there are studies where antiproliferative activity for phthalate has been disproved (López-Saiz et al, 2014). A link between the capacity of phthalates of binding and therefore activating estrogen receptors associated to signaling cascades for progression, and breast cancer, has been suggested by several in vitro studies (Zuccarello et al, 2018).…”