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Environ Pollut
December 2024
Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), C. Emili Grahit 101, 17003, Girona, Spain; Universitat de Girona (UdG), Girona, Spain. Electronic address:
The increase in maritime traffic has led to substantial greywater discharges into the marine environment. Greywater, originating from sinks, showers, kitchen, and laundry facilities, contains a wide array of chemical contaminants influenced by on-board activities, ship size, and management practices. The lack of comprehensive regulations for greywater management, along with limited research on its chemical composition, highlights the need to characterize these waste streams.
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December 2024
Department of Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia, 2002-6250 Applied Science Lane, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada.
Background: The declaration of mpox as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern highlights the need for interventions to interrupt virus transmission, including transmission via fabrics. Current World Health Organization guidance on clothes washing is based on a general consensus of virus inactivation; however, there is uncertainty about the efficacy of laundry detergents and disinfectants or the reduction of risk achieved by washing clothes for monkeypox virus (MPXV) specifically.
Methods: This study investigates the efficacy of manual washing for inactivating MPXV from clothes.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
September 2024
Faculty of Food and Biochemical Technology, Department of Food Analysis and Nutrition, University of Chemistry and Technology (UCT), Prague, Technicka 5, 166 28, Prague, Czechia.
Given the increasing concern about chemical exposure from textiles, our study examines the risks of dermal exposure to bisphenol A (BPA), bisphenol S (BPS), bisphenol B (BPB) and bisphenol F (BPF) from conventional and recycled textiles for adults, aiming to obtain new data, assess exposure, and evaluate the impact of washing on bisphenol levels. A total of 57 textile samples (33 from recycled and 24 from conventional material) were subjected to ultrasound-assisted extraction (UAE) followed by ultra-high performance liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry analysis (UHPLC-MS/MS). The BPA and BPS concentrations varied widely (BPA: < 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClin Toxicol (Phila)
July 2024
Pediatric Poison Center, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania.
Introduction: The epidemiological and clinical characteristics of acute poisoning with liquid laundry detergent capsules have been comprehensively reported. However, studies of laboratory test results in these exposures are uncommon. This study analyzed the impact of the ingestion of liquid laundry detergent capsules on admission laboratory tests in paediatric patients.
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August 2024
Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, Jiangsu Provincial Key Lab Pulp & Paper Science and Technology, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, PR China. Electronic address:
Petroleum-based packaging materials are nondegradable and unsustainable and thus are harmful to the environment. Renewable packaging films prepared from bio-based raw materials are promising alternatives to petroleum-based packaging materials. In this study, colorless and transparent bio-based films were successfully cast using a solution containing a mixture of arabinogalactan (AG) and poly (vinyl alcohol) (PVA).
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