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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 45, Issue 2, Pages 615-621Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/es1031272
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- Federal Office for the Environment (Bern, Switzerland)
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Artificial sweeteners are consumed in substantial quantities as sugar substitutes and were previously shown to be ubiquitously present in the aquatic environment The sweetener saccharin is also registered as additive in piglet feed. Saccharin fed to piglets was largely excreted and, consequently, found in liquid manure at concentrations up to 12 mg/L, where it was stable during 2 months of storage. Saccharin may thus end up in soils in considerable quantities with manure. Furthermore, other studies showed that saccharin is a soil metabolite of certain sulfonylurea herbicides. Sweeteners may also get into soils via irrigation with wastewater-polluted surface water, fertilization with sewage sludge (1-43 mu g/L), or through leaky sewers. In soil incubation experiments, cyclamate, saccharin, acesulfame, and sucralose were degraded with half-lives of 0.4-6 d, 3-12 d, 3-49 d, and 8-124 d, respectively. The relative importance of entry pathways to soils was compared and degradation and leaching to groundwater were evaluated with computer simulations. The data suggest that detection of saccharin in groundwater (observed concentrations, up to 0.26 mu g/L) is most likely due to application of manure. However, elevated concentrations of acesulfame in groundwater (up to 5,mu g/L) may result primarily from infiltration of wastewater-polluted surface water through stream beds.
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