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Characterization of VOCs and additives in Italian PET bottles and studies on potential functional aldehydes scavengers

Journal

EUROPEAN FOOD RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 248, Issue 5, Pages 1407-1420

Publisher

SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00217-022-03973-5

Keywords

PET bottles; VOCs; Mineral waters; ESBO; MXD6; Erucamide; Anthranilamide; HS-GC; MS

Funding

  1. Ministry of University and Scientific Research (MIUR) of Italy
  2. National Council of Research (CNR) of Italy

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This study focuses on characterizing the Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) in Italian PET bottles and suggests potential aldehydes scavengers. The study identifies several VOCs in the PET bottles used for packaging mineral waters, and also finds that these contaminants are present in the bottled waters. Further experiments reveal that the VOCs likely come from an additive used during the manufacturing process of PET bottles.
This study focused on characterization of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) as contaminants and non-volatile additives in Italian PET bottles, also suggesting potential functional aldehydes scavengers. Several VOCs, such as acetic aldehyde (AA), butanal, 3-methyl butanal, 1,3-dioxolane, pentanal, hexanal, octanal, 5-hepten-2-one, nonanal, and decanal, were identified by Head Space-Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (HS-GC/MS) in the PET bottles used for the packaging of six Italian brands mineral waters. AA, 1,3-dioxolane, octanal, 5-hepten-2-one, nonanal, and decanal were the most abundant compounds identified. These contaminants were also identified in the PET-bottled mineral waters. Different experiments using bottle-grade PET pellets (Btlg-PET) and PET bottles' fragments with and without the addition of epoxidized soybean oil (ESBO) or erucamide as lubricant/plasticizer additives, poly(m-xylene adipamide) (MXD6), and/or anthranilamide (2-aminobenzamide) as potential aldehydes scavengers were carried out. Mostly VOCs observed in the PET bottles analysed were identified in a neat ESBO sample. The presence of the ESBO additive in the PET-bottle fragments was also observed by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry analysis (MALDI-TOF MS). The ESBO sub-products were not observed in the virgin btlg-PET pellets analysed by both HS-GC/MS and MALDI-TOF MS. These results suggest that the VOCs come from an ESBO additive probably loaded during the blow-moulding processes used for the manufacturing of PET bottles. Further studies established that MXD6 (1%w), an efficient oxygen scavenger, could be also used as AA scavenger even in the presence of the commonly used anthranilamide.

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