Dimethyl phthalate (DMP), a known endocrine disruptor and one of the phthalate esters (PAEs), is a ubiquitous pollutant. Its impacts on living organisms have aroused great concern. In this study, the impacts of DMP contamination on bacterial communities and functions were tested by using microcosm model in black soils. The results showed that the operational taxonomic unit (OTUs) richness and b...

The American Chemistry Council Phthalate Esters Panel read with great interest the paper by Blount et al. (1) regarding urinary levels of phthalate ester metabolites in a sample set of the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) population. We have known for some time of this research, and have provided whatever information and assistance we could to the Centers for ...

Phthalate exposures in the general population and in subpopulations are ubiquitous and widely variable. Many consumer products contain specific members of this family of chemicals, including building materials, household furnishings, clothing, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, nutritional supplements, medical devices, dentures, children's toys, glow sticks, modelling clay, food packaging, automobiles...

Phthalate esters have been widely used in industrial nations as plasticizers, in cosmetics, insect repellants, and munitions (Ribbons et al., 19847 Peakall, 1975). Due to the abundance of plastic materials in use, it has been estimated that 51 million pounds of phthalate esters leach into the environment annually (Ribbons et al., 1984). Phthalate esters have been found in many environmental sam...

Any assessment of plastic contamination in the marine environment requires knowledge of the polymer type and the additive content of microplastics. Sequential pyrolysis-gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (Pyr-GC/MS) was applied to simultaneously identify polymer types of microplastic particles and associated organic plastic additives (OPAs). In addition, a scanning electron microsc...

In this work, phthalic acid esters (PAEs): dimethyl phthalate (DMP), diethyl phthalate (DEP), di-n-butyl phthalate, benzyl butyl phthalate, bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate, and di-n-octyl phthalate in indoor dust (used as passive sampler) were investigated. The settled dust samples were collected from thirteen indoor environments from Palermo city. A fast and simple method using Soxhlet and GC-MS a...

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Causative materials for contamination of surface water 3. Heavy metals 4. Pollution for the phthalate esters caused from human activities 5. Endocrine disrupting chemicals 6. Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) 6.1. Organic chlorinated chemicals 6.2. Organic phosphorylated chemicals 6.3. Other agricultural chemicals 6.4. Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluor...

Interest has been expressed in tracing possible sources of contamination (e.g. from human or other waste) by using compounds such as pharmaceuticals, caffeine, and sterols in waste as potential source markers. This pilot study was designed to identify and measure a limited set of compounds in aqueous environmental samples to determine possible relations between these compounds to animal and hum...

Phthalates are synthetic contaminants released into the environment notably by plastic waste. Semi-volatile, they adsorb to atmospheric particles and get distributed in all ecosystems. Effects of this major anthropogenic pollution in economical species in aquatic habitats have attracted large interest. On the contrary, very few studies have focused on wild terrestrial species. Yet, these lipoph...