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Environmental problems and health risks with disposable baby diapers: monitoring of toxic compounds by application of analytical techniques and need of education

Patrycja Makoś-Chełstowska, Aleksandra Kurowska-Susdorf, and Justyna Płotka-Wasylka review analytical methods and health concerns for disposable baby diapers.

Patrycja Makoś-Chełstowska, Aleksandra Kurowska-Susdorf, and Justyna Płotka-Wasylka review analytical methods and health concerns for disposable baby diapers. The copy is a journal pre-proof. Concentrations of phthalates, organotins, formaldehyde, and metals that the review cites from other papers are not copied onto this page. A cited number is not this review’s measurement.

Key numbers

The review states that, at the time of writing, most countries have no legal regulations defining a maximum permissible concentration of individual xenobiotics in diapers. No metal limit adopted by the authors as their own instrument is printed as a number here.

Methods (brief)

Literature review of monitoring methods. Not a new laboratory survey.

Evidence fitness

The page supports the regulatory-gap statement above. It does not add occurrence numbers.

Limitations

Pre-proof. Cited studies would need their own source pages before their numbers are used.

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