Due to public health concerns, the Chinese government and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) both introduced test methods for the analysis of phthalate content in childcare items and toys using GC/MS in 2008. These regulatory methods require determination of the presence of six regulated phthalate esters including dibutyl phthalate (DBP), benzyl butyl phthalate (BBP), bis(2-ethylh...

Essential oils are considered as very complex natural mixtures containing numerous components at quite various concentrations. Lythrum salicaria has not been previously subjected to examination of its volatile oil. The present study was carried out to evaluate the essential oil composition of the flowering aerial parts of the plant by using conventionally hydro-distillation (HD) and microwave a...

The adsorption of Bis (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) on the carbon adsorbents (Chezacarb S and Chezacarb SH) and polymer adsorbent on basis of polypropylene with polyethylene (Reo Fb) was studied. Efficiency of DEHP adsorption (concentration DEHP to 10 g.L, concentration of the adsorbents 1.7 g.L) was more then 99.9 %. By the sample from groundwater was efficiency more as 99.7 % in the case of...

objective(s) in recent years concerns have been raised regarding the incidence of male reproductive disorders from exposure to endocrine disruptors. so, chronic effects of di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate were studied on histological and stereological structure of testis in adult wistar rats. materials and methods thirty two adult wistar rats were randomly divided in four equal experiment groups; oil ...

Essential oils are considered as very complex natural mixtures containing numerous components at quite various concentrations. Lythrum salicaria has not been previously subjected to examination of its volatile oil. The present study was carried out to evaluate the essential oil composition of the flowering aerial parts of the plant by using c...

In this study, we were interested in the valuation of Ocimum gratissimum, an aromatic and medicinal plant Ivorian flora. The essential oils leafy branches gratissimum extracted by hydrodistillation with a Clévenger-type device. yield obtained increases from (0.05±0.01%) to (0.42±0.08%) depending on drying time. density is almost constant at 0.80. chemical composition was identified after analys...

The effects of mono- and dibutyl phthalate and mono- and di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate on energy-dependent K+ uptake, respiration rates, and succinate cytochrome c reductase activities of isolated rat liver mitochondria were evaluated. The energy-coupling processes, active K+ transport and oxidative phosphorylation, were affected most by di-n-butyl phthalate and mono(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate. Mono-...

Experimental vapor pressures, vaporization, fusion and sublimation enthalpies of a number of dialkyl benzenedicarboxylates have been examined by correlation gas chromatography (CGC) experiments in order to identify a series of experimental measurements that appear to be internally self-consistent. The compounds studied in this regard include dimethyl phthalate dimethyl terephthalate, dimethyl i...

From the culture broth of a fungus, two metabolites have been isolated: bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP) precedently isolated from Streptomyces sp. and 2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-2-oxoacetaldehyde oxime (PHBA) here reported as a natural compound in the (E)-s-cis configuration. The producing organism was identified as a strain of Penicillium olsonii. Culture growth and chemical identification are disc...

This study investigates the potential migration of plasticisers, plastic components and additives from several plastic water bottles. Compounds studied were phthalates (dimethyl phthalate, di-n-butyl phthalate, benzylbutyl phthalate, bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate), bis(2-ethylhexyl) adipate, octylphenol, 4-nonylphenol and bisphenol A. Polycarbonate (PC), high-density polyethylene (HDPE), low-dens...