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摘要
Paper receipt has been documented as one major source of bisphenol A (BPA) for human exposure but little has been done by researchers to elaborate the potential health risk caused by handling paper receipt up to date. In the present study, BPA was analyzed in 42 supermarket receipts collected from Shenzhen, China. BPA was detected in all samples at concentrations ranging from 2.58 to 14.7 mg g(-1). In most cases, the total amount of BPA on the receipt was at least one thousand times the amount found in the epoxy lining of a food can, another controversial use of the chemical. The estimated daily intakes (EDI) of BPA via handling of supermarket receipt ranged from 2 to 347 mu g day(-1) (mean, 40.4 mu g day(-1)) for a supermarket cashier and from 0.24 to 3.98 mu g day(-1) (mean, 0.69 mu g day(-1)) for general population. Based on the cumulative probability distribution of the calculated daily exposure to BPA via handling supermarket receipt, the EDI at the 0.1th and 1th percentile for supermarket cashier and general population, were already larger than 100 ng (kg bw)(-1) day(-1), while at the 0.2th and 71th percentile, the EDI for both populations reached 1000 ng (kg bw)(-1) day(-1). Considering the adverse endocrine disruptive effects of BPA and the dosage exposure level (from tens to hundreds ng (kg bw)(-1) day(-1)), human exposure to BPA in Shenzhen deserves more attention. Sensitivity analysis result showed that the handling time and frequency of supermarket receipts are the most important variables that contributed to most of the total variance of exposure.
- 出版日期2013-8
- 单位北京大学深圳研究生院; 深圳市疾病预防控制中心
