scholarly journals Environmental Protection Agency Drinking Water Protective Action Guides Implementation Recommendations.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lainy Cochran ◽  
Kevin Hart
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
Protective Action ◽  
Protection Agency

Effect of NaCl on antimony and phthalate compounds leached from PET bottles

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 766-772 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piyawan Leechart ◽  
Duangrat Inthorn ◽  
Paitip Thiravetyan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
The United States ◽  
Protection Agency ◽  
Pet Bottles ◽  
Nacl Concentration ◽  
Inner Surface

Nowadays polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles are commonly used as food containers as they are lightweight. PET bottles contain antimony (Sb) and phthalate compounds. In contact with food, antimony and phthalate molecules could migrate from the inner surface of a PET bottle to the food. Therefore, we studied the effect of NaCl concentration in PET bottles on the leakage of antimony and phthalates. It was found that the concentration of antimony leached into the solution was about 6 ngl−1 after 5 days storage at room temperature in the absence of NaCl. Increasing NaCl concentrations to 6% caused a decrease in the amount of soluble antimony in the solution to 2 ngl−1 under the same conditions. In addition, the maximum leakage of phthalate compounds of about 130 ngl−1 occurred after 35 days of storage at 60 °C in 0.1% NaCl. It was found that the leakage of phthalate compounds decreased at higher NaCl concentrations (NaCl 0.5%–30%). Higher NaCl concentrations led to a decrease in the migration of antimony and phthalate compounds into the solution. This might be due to the fact that antimony and phthalate compounds form complexes with NaCl. However, the leakage of these compounds was lower than the standard guidelines of the United States Environmental Protection Agency for drinking water.

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