PHTHALATES

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Federal Environmental Agency, Germany

2003

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CONTENTS 5

LIST OF TABLES 6

SUMMARY 7

1. INTRODUCTION 9

1.1 CHEMISTRY AND USE 9

1.2 FATE A OF THE PHTHALASTES 11

1.2.1 PHTHALATES IN THE ENVIRONMENT 11

1.2.2 DEGRADATION OF THE PHTHALATES 12

1.2.3 TOXIC EFFECTS OF THE PHTHALATES 12

1.3 DISCUSSION OF THE RELEVANCE 13

2. EXISITING STANDARDS OR

DRAFT STANDARDS 17

2.1 ANALYSIS 17

2.2 SAMPLES 18

2.2.1 SAMPLE PREPARATION 18

2.2.2 EXTRACTION 18

2.2.3 CLEANUP 19

2.3 CHOISE OF INSTRUMENTATION 20

2.4 INTERNAL STANDARDS 20

2.5 LIMITS OF DETECTION/DETERMINATION,

STANDARD DEVIATION 21

2.6 PHTHALATES WITH LONG SIDE CHAINS 29

3. EVALUATION OF A DRAFT FOR A

HORIZONTAL STANDARD 30

4. CRITICAL POINTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 32

4.1 PRENORMATIVE INVESTIGATIONS 32

4.2 METHOD 33

5. DRAFT STANDARD (CEN TEMPLATE) 35

6. ACRONYMS 36

7. REFERENCES 38