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ClearComprehensive Insight from Phthalates Occurrence: From Health Outcomes to Emerging Analytical Approaches
This review summarizes the widespread occurrence of phthalates, chemicals commonly used as plasticizers in plastic products, and their potential health effects including endocrine disruption and reproductive harm. The study also surveys emerging analytical methods for detecting phthalates in food, water, and biological samples, highlighting the challenge of daily human exposure through consumer products.
The Problem of Phthalate Occurrence in Aquatic Environment
This review surveys phthalate contamination in aquatic environments, covering analytical quantification methods, toxicity data, and sources of phthalate pollution. It highlights phthalates as plastic additives that leach into water from plastic products, posing risks to aquatic organisms and human health.
Emerging microextraction platforms for enhanced phthalic acid esters monitoring in food
Researchers reviewed recent advances in microextraction techniques for detecting phthalate plasticizers — endocrine-disrupting chemicals that leach from plastics into food — highlighting progress in green solvents and functional materials while flagging persistent challenges in reproducibility across complex food matrices and the need for better standardization.
Occurrence, Fate, Behavior and Ecotoxicological State of Phthalates in Different Environmental Matrices
This review examines the widespread presence of phthalates, chemicals commonly added to plastics to increase flexibility, across air, water, soil, and food. Researchers found that phthalates are detected virtually everywhere in the environment and have been linked to reproductive, developmental, and hormonal effects in laboratory studies. The study highlights that indoor air represents a particularly significant source of human exposure since people spend the majority of their time indoors surrounded by plastic-containing products.
Environmental Aspect Concerning Phthalates Contamination: Analytical Approaches and Assessment of Biomonitoring in the Aquatic Environment
This review covered the environmental occurrence, analytical detection methods, and biomonitoring of phthalate plasticizers in aquatic organisms, summarizing extraction techniques, bioindicator species, and the ecological and toxicological risks of phthalate contamination in water bodies.
Plastic additives and microplastics as emerging contaminants: Mechanisms and analytical assessment
Researchers reviewed how chemical additives mixed into plastics during manufacturing — including stabilizers, flame retardants, and plasticizers — can leach out throughout a plastic's lifecycle and pose risks to ecosystems and human health, with microplastics acting as carriers that concentrate and transport these hazardous chemicals.
Plasticisers in the terrestrial environment: sources, occurrence and fate
This review examines the sources, occurrence, and environmental fate of plasticiser chemicals released from plastics into terrestrial environments. Researchers found that both phthalate and newer non-phthalate plasticisers persist in soil, can be taken up by organisms, and may pose emerging risks as industry transitions to replacement chemicals. The study highlights significant knowledge gaps about how these widely used additives behave once released into land-based ecosystems.
Microplastics as an emerging threat to human health: Challenges and advancements in their detection
This review examined microplastics as an emerging threat to human health, highlighting their endocrine-disrupting properties, ability to accumulate pollutants, and the analytical challenges in accurately detecting and characterizing them across environmental and biological samples.
Determination of additives as markers of microplastic contamination in the environment
Researchers developed chromatography-mass spectrometry methods to detect plastic additives like phthalates, phosphates, and terephthalates in environmental dust samples as markers of microplastic contamination. The analytical techniques achieved detection limits low enough to identify these chemicals in workplace settled dust. The study suggests that measuring plastic additive chemicals could serve as a practical indirect method for tracking microplastic pollution in indoor environments.
Solving the impact of Phthalate plasticizers in relieving environment pollution
This review examines how phthalate plasticizers—particularly DEHP, DEP, and DBP found in food packaging and cosmetics—enter soil and human bodies, where they disrupt metabolic and reproductive systems and contribute to environmental plastic pollution.
Understanding the leaching of plastic additives and subsequent risks to ecosystems
This review explains how chemical additives in plastics -- including plasticizers, flame retardants, and stabilizers -- can leach out of microplastics into the environment and potentially into the human body. Some of these additives, such as phthalates and brominated flame retardants, are persistent, build up in living tissue, and are linked to hormone disruption and other health effects. The authors note that our understanding of the full toxicity risk from leaching plastic additives is still limited.
Environmental occurrence and ecotoxicological risks of plastic leachates in aquatic and terrestrial environments
This review examines how chemical additives that leach out of plastics -- including hormone disruptors like BPA and phthalates -- affect organisms in both water and land environments. The chemicals' harmful effects depend on environmental conditions like temperature and UV exposure, which influence how much leaches out and how easily organisms absorb it. The findings highlight that the danger of plastic pollution extends beyond the physical particles to the toxic chemicals they release.
Analytical methodology for unveiling human exposure to (micro)plastic additives
Researchers reviewed laboratory and population-level methods for measuring human exposure to chemicals that leach from plastics — such as bisphenols and flame retardants — detailing how these toxic additives can be tracked through urine and blood tests after entering the body.
Examining the Relevance of the Microplastic-Associated Additive Fraction in Environmental Compartments
Researchers developed a theoretical framework for sampling and analytical procedures to characterize the speciation of plastic-associated chemical additives across environmental compartments, addressing a gap in routine monitoring programs that have not accounted for additives still bound to plastic particles. The study examines additive bioavailability and plastic-associated transport as key risk factors in environmental contamination assessment.
Novel Plasticizers Are Emerging Contaminants
This review examines novel plasticizers — chemicals added to plastics to make them flexible — as emerging environmental contaminants. As regulators restrict traditional phthalate plasticizers due to their hormonal effects, newer replacement plasticizers are entering the environment with limited toxicological data, and may be found as additives in microplastic particles.
Occurrence and effects of plastic additives on marine environments and organisms: A review
This review examines chemical additives found in plastics, such as flame retardants, phthalates, and bisphenol A, and how they leach into the marine environment as plastics accumulate and fragment. Researchers summarize evidence showing that these additives have been detected in marine water, sediment, and organisms, and can transfer from ingested plastic into animal tissues. The findings highlight that the chemical risk from plastic additives deserves as much attention as the physical impacts of microplastic particles themselves.
The Origin of Phthalates in Algae: Biosynthesis and Environmental Bioaccumulation
Researchers reviewed the dual role of algae as both producers and accumulators of phthalic acid esters, common plasticizer chemicals found throughout aquatic environments. The study suggests that algae can both biosynthesize and bioaccumulate phthalates depending on environmental conditions, making them important organisms for understanding the cycling of these widespread contaminants.
Landfill leachates as a significant source for emerging pollutants of phthalic acid esters: Identification, occurrence, characteristics, fate, and transport
This review examines landfill leachates as a major source of phthalic acid esters, which are chemical additives released from microplastics, cosmetics, and other consumer products. Researchers found that these compounds are widespread in landfill leachates across different countries and can contaminate surrounding water and soil. The study suggests that phthalic acid esters in leachates represent a significant but often overlooked pathway for environmental pollution.
Phthalates and Their Impacts on Human Health
This review examines phthalates, chemicals widely used to make plastics flexible, and their harmful effects on human health as endocrine disruptors. Chronic exposure to phthalates has been linked to reproductive problems, developmental issues in children, and complications during pregnancy. Since phthalates are common additives in microplastics, understanding their toxicity is essential for assessing the full health risk of microplastic exposure.
Leaching and extraction of additives from plastic pollution to inform environmental risk: A multidisciplinary review of analytical approaches
This review looks at how chemical additives leak out of plastic pollution into the environment, comparing methods used by environmental scientists with established industry testing standards. Plastics contain many added chemicals like flame retardants, stabilizers, and plasticizers that can leach into water and soil. Understanding how these additives are released is important for assessing whether microplastics in food and water are carrying harmful chemicals into the human body.