Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, Department of Chemistry, University of Prishtina "Hasan Prishtina", Prishtina, Kosovo.
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, Department of Biology, University of Prishtina "Hasan Prishtina", Prishtina, Kosovo.
J Environ Sci Health A Tox Hazard Subst Environ Eng. 2021;56(14):1496-1502. doi: 10.1080/10934529.2021.2014251. Epub 2021 Dec 10.
In this study, one hundred and twenty-eight toys and children's care items available in the Kosovo market were analyzed to determine the presence of phthalates and evaluate if the analyzed samples meet the national and EU standards. Toys and children's care items were imported from twelve countries, most of them from China. Phthalates were extracted and then analyzed using gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. Nine phthalates were analyzed in total, of them, benzyl butyl phthalate, di-isodecyl phthalate, diisobutyl phthalate and di-isononyl phthalate were the most frequently detected phthalates in the analyzed samples. Phthalates were not detected only in three toys and children's care items, others contained one or more phthalates, while none of them contained all (nine) analyzed phthalates. In total, 22 analyzed toys and children's care items did not fulfill at least one of the EU standards, of these 16 were toys and children's care items intended for children under age three and designed to be placed in the mouth. Overall, our work shows that toys and children's care items that exceed EU standards for phthalates are still present in the Kosovo market.
在这项研究中，对科索沃市场上的 128 种玩具和儿童护理用品进行了分析，以确定邻苯二甲酸酯的存在情况，并评估分析样本是否符合国家和欧盟标准。玩具和儿童护理用品从 12 个国家进口，其中大部分来自中国。邻苯二甲酸酯被提取出来，然后使用气相色谱和质谱进行分析。总共分析了 9 种邻苯二甲酸酯，其中，邻苯二甲酸丁基苄基酯、邻苯二甲酸二异葵酯、邻苯二甲酸二异丁酯和邻苯二甲酸二异壬酯是分析样品中最常检测到的邻苯二甲酸酯。只有 3 种玩具和儿童护理用品中未检测到邻苯二甲酸酯，其他产品含有一种或多种邻苯二甲酸酯，而没有一种产品含有所有（9 种）分析的邻苯二甲酸酯。总共，22 种分析的玩具和儿童护理用品至少有一项不符合欧盟标准，其中 16 种是供 3 岁以下儿童使用且设计成可放入口中的玩具和儿童护理用品。总的来说，我们的工作表明，超过欧盟邻苯二甲酸酯标准的玩具和儿童护理用品仍在科索沃市场上销售。
