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Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in High-Consumption Soft Drinks and Non-Alcoholic Beers in Iran: Monitoring, Monte Carlo Simulations and Human Health Risk Assessment Publisher



Azari A1, 2 ; Abtahi M1, 3 ; Dobaradaran S4, 5, 6 ; Saeedi R1, 7 ; Reza Yari A8 ; Hossein Vaziri M1, 7 ; Ali Razavinasab S2 ; Malakoutian M9 ; Yaghmaeain K10 ; Jaafarzadeh N11
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  1. 1. Workplace Health Promotion Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  2. 2. Sirjan School of Medical Sciences, Sirjan, Iran
  3. 3. Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health and Safety, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  4. 4. Systems Environmental Health and Energy Research Center, The Persian Gulf Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
  5. 5. Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Faculty of Health and Nutrition, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
  6. 6. Instrumental Analytical Chemistry and Centre for Water and Environmental Research (ZWU), Faculty of Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
  7. 7. Department of Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE), School of Public Health and Safety, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  8. 8. Research Center for Environmental Pollutants, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran
  9. 9. Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
  10. 10. Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  11. 11. Environmental Technologies Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran

Source: Microchemical Journal Published:2023


Abstract

The present study has focused on measuring the level of 16 PAHs in soft drinks and non-alcoholic beers and their health risk using the MSPE/GC–MS (magnetic solid-phase extraction and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry) method. The average of extraction recoveries (ER) was obtained between 73.048% and 99.879%. The mean concentration of ∑16PAH and ∑8PAHs were 0.702 ± 0.078 ppb and 0.196 ± 0.016 ppb in soft drinks and 1.315 ± 0.199 ppb and 0.288 ± 0.021 ppb in the non-alcoholic beer samples, respectively. The measured BaP for a soft drink (0.00856 ppb) and non-alcoholic beer (0.0197 ppb) were far below the U.S. EPA standard for drinking water quality (0.2 ppb). The TEQBaP of soft drinks (0.039 ppb) was lower than non-alcoholic beer samples (0.061 ppb). The Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) results showed the THQ 95th percentiles of PAHs for soft drink samples in the adult and children were calculated as 9.497E-04 and 2.221E-03, while these amounts for non-alcoholic beer samples in children and adults were 3.341E-03 and 1.430E-03, respectively. The incremental lifetime cancer risk (ILCR) values for adults and children were also 2.841E-07 and 1.328E-06 in soft drinks and 4.273E-07 and 1.996E-06 in non-alcoholic beer samples, respectively. The values of non-carcinogenic and carcinogenic risks of the 16 PAHs in high-consumption soft drinks and non-alcoholic beers in Iran were in the acceptable ranges (hazard quotient < 1 and ILCR 〈1 0 −6). © 2023 Elsevier B.V.
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