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Chromatography 2016
September 21-23, 2016
Volume 7, Issue 5(Suppl) J Chromatogr Sep Tech 2016
ISSN: 2157-7064 JCGST, an open access journal
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September 21-23, 2016 Amsterdam, Netherlands
World Congress on Chromatography
A validated UPLC-UV method for bisphenol A (BP-A) levels detection in imported plastic toys and
drinking bottled water in Kuwait
Naser Faisal Al-Tannak
Kuwait University, Kuwait
Bisphenol A (BP-A) is an essential component of polyvinyl chloride, polystyrene, phthalates and polycarbonate plastics
linked by ester bonds, and it can leach out of plastics at high temperature. BP-A is known to have an endocrine disrupting
effect and recent studies have started to link its levels as causative factors in many diseases. Kuwait is considered as one of
the hottest countries in the world, and measurements of BP-A levels due to leakage from plastics have never been reported.
Therefore, this study measures the levels of BP-A in four randomly selected plastic toys and two plastic water bottles from
two different companies after storage at 45ºC for four days. An ultra-pressure liquid chromatography coupled with ultraviolet
detector (UPLC-UV) analytical method was used to investigate BP-A levels in four of randomly chosen plastic toys (plastic
tiger- plastic Lego blocks- plastic doll- small dolls) stored at 45ºC for four days. The limit of detection (LOD) and the limit
of quantification (LOQ) of the established analytical method were equal to 0.4 ppb and 1 ppb, respectively. BP-A levels was
239 ppb in plastic tiger, 30 ppb in plastic Lego, 4 ppb in plastic doll, 3 ppb in small dolls and 59 ppb in drinking bottled water.
Surprisingly, BP-A was detected in all selected plastic toys and one out of two randomly selected drinking bottled water.
Therefore, imported mineral water should be filled in a glass container rather than plastics due to high climate temperature.
Moreover, toys manufacturers should use BP-A free plastics.
Biography
Naser Faisal Al-Tannak has completed his PhD from Strathclyde University, Glasgow, United Kingdom in 2012. Currently, he is an Assistance Professor at
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry-Faculty of Pharmacy in Kuwait University. He has published eight peer reviewed papers in reputed journals.
Naser Faisal Al-Tannak, J Chromatogr Sep Tech 2016, 7:5(Suppl)