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Antimony Assessment in PET Bottles for Soft Drink

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The aim of this work was to develop a method for the determination of antimony (Sb) in polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles and to evaluate its migration into soft drink and simulant. In this context, a new procedure for PET sample preparation, using a high pressure asher (HPA), is presented for the determination of Sb by inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES). The concentration of Sb in PET bottles ranged between 272 and 650 mg kg−1. The migration of Sb into soft drink after 180 days at 35 °C was below the LOQ, 20 μg L−1. The specific migration of Sb from the bottle into simulant 3% of acetic acid after the contact per 10 days at 40 °C was less than the LOQ, 23.5 μg L−1. The results showed that all packaging evaluated contained Sb, but the maximum permissible migration value for Sb, 40 μg L−1, established by Anvisa and EU, was never exceeded.

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The authors are grateful to the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) for the financial support for this research (processes 2007/08211-0).

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  1. Centro de Tecnologia de Embalagem, Instituto de Tecnologia de Alimentos – ITAL, Campinas, SP, 13070-178, Brazil

    Paulo Henrique M. Kiyataka, Sílvia T. Dantas & Aline Cristina Albino

  2. Departamento de Ciência de Alimentos, Faculdade de Engenharia de Alimentos, Universidade Estadual de Campinas–UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, 13083-862, Brazil

    Juliana Azevedo Lima Pallone

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Kiyataka, P.H.M., Dantas, S.T., Albino, A.C. et al. Antimony Assessment in PET Bottles for Soft Drink. Food Anal. Methods 11, 1–9 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12161-017-0951-x

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