Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Selangor, Malaysia.
Ecotoxicol Environ Saf. 2019 Apr 15;170:699-707. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2018.12.048. Epub 2018 Dec 20.
Generally, non-nutritive artificial sweeteners are widely utilized as sugar substitute in various applications. With various applications, non-nutritive artificial sweeteners are now being recognized as emerging contaminants with high water persistence and are chemically stable in environment. Although non-nutritive artificial sweeteners were documented on their occurrence in environment, yet their potential impacts to environment and human health remain ambiguous. Therefore, this review was prepared to provide a more comprehensive insight of non-nutritive artificial sweeteners in environment matrixes by highlighting special concerns on human health and environmental risks. Precisely, this review monitors the exploration of non-nutritive artificial sweeteners occurrences as an emerging contaminants in environment worldwide and their associated risks to human as well as environment. At present, there are a total of 24 non-nutritive artificial sweeteners' studies with regards to their occurrence in the environment from 38 locations globally, spanning across Europe including United Kingdoms, Canada, United States and Asia. Overall, the quantitative findings suggested that the occurrence of non-nutritive artificial sweeteners is present in surface water, tap water, groundwater, seawater, lakes and atmosphere. Among these environmental matrixes, surface water was found as the most studied matrix involving non-nutritive artificial sweeteners. However, findings on non-nutritive artificial sweeteners impacts on human health and environment are limited to understanding its overall potential impacts and risks. Additionally, this review also serves as a framework for future monitoring plans and environmental legislative to better control these emerging contaminants in environment.
一般来说，非营养性人工甜味剂被广泛用作各种应用中的糖替代品。随着各种应用的出现，非营养性人工甜味剂现在被认为是具有高持久性的新兴污染物，并且在环境中具有化学稳定性。尽管非营养性人工甜味剂已经被记录在环境中的存在，但它们对环境和人类健康的潜在影响仍然不清楚。因此，本综述旨在通过强调对人类健康和环境风险的特殊关注，提供对环境基质中非营养性人工甜味剂的更全面的了解。具体来说，本综述监测了非营养性人工甜味剂作为新兴污染物在全球环境中的出现情况及其对人类和环境的相关风险。目前，共有 24 项关于非营养性人工甜味剂在环境中出现的研究，这些研究来自全球 38 个地点，涵盖了欧洲（包括英国、加拿大、美国和亚洲）。总的来说，定量研究结果表明，非营养性人工甜味剂的存在于地表水、自来水、地下水、海水、湖泊和大气中。在这些环境基质中，地表水是最受关注的基质，涉及非营养性人工甜味剂。然而，关于非营养性人工甜味剂对人类健康和环境的影响的研究结果仅限于对其整体潜在影响和风险的理解。此外，本综述还为未来的监测计划和环境法规提供了一个框架，以更好地控制环境中的这些新兴污染物。
