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Relationship between the use of plastics in refrigerator food storage and urine phthalate metabolites: the Korean National Environmental Health Survey (KoNEHS) cycle 3
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Researchers found that men who stored food in plastic containers in refrigerators had significantly higher urinary concentrations of DEHP metabolites and other phthalate compounds compared to those using non-plastic storage, based on data from the Korean National Environmental Health Survey, highlighting plastic food storage as a meaningful source of phthalate exposure.
The concentrations of urine phthalate metabolites (MEHHP, MEOHP, MECPP, ∑DEHP, and MnBP) were significantly higher in men who used plastics in refrigerator food storage compared to those using the others.
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