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. 2021 Aug 17;55(17):11814–11823. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.1c01103

Table 2. Chemical Features Detected in the Plastic Extracts and Migrates, and Tentatively Identified Compounds.

  number of features
tentatively identified chemicals
  total extract only low migration readily leachable migrate only sum in migrate (%)bc massbank CPPdb ECHAdb NORMAN combined (%)c
HDPE 1 1401 520 665 136 80 216 (15.4) 12 70 99 186 189 (13.5)
LDPE 1a 670 162 265 138 105 243 (36.39) 18 47 71 110 114 (17.0)
LDPE 2a 5923 2011 3370 515 27 542 (9.2) 41 276 402 695 715 (12.1)
LDPE 3a 7731 1679 2749 3244 59 3303 (42.7) 28 202 278 503 508 (6.6)
LDPE 4 6890 689 1455 4226 520 4746 (68.9) 55 374 463 912 930 (13.5)
PS 1a 1509 153 252 493 611 1104 (73.2) 5 45 49 148 152 (10.1)
PS 2a 4740 900 1203 2285 352 2637 (55.6) 81 150 211 467 485 (10.2)
PS 3a 278 75 150 44 9 53 (19.1) 0 4 8 16 16 (5.8)
PS 4 523 206 300 14 3 17 (3.3) 5 17 26 48 48 (9.2)
PP 1a 7036 1056 2586 2882 512 3394 (48.2) 58 238 321 701 716 (10.2)
PP 2a 13 844 3048 6307 4040 449 4489 (32.4) 99 404 549 1010 1025 (7.4)
PET 1a 1664 771 838 48 7 55 (3.3) 38 112 150 260 269 (16.2)
PVC 1a 11 791 2261 5086 4396 48 4444 (37.7) 89 441 588 1198 1213 (10.3)
PVC 2 4983 866 1854 2169 94 2263 (45.4) 51 182 277 540 557 (11.2)
PVC 3 4952 1514 2574 750 114 864 (17.4) 47 192 251 481 495 (10.0)
PVC 4 11 252 2530 5274 3198 250 3448 (30.6) 110 423 556 1171 1206 (10.7)
PUR 1 10 809 1159 2434 6795 421 7216 (66.8) 29 203 259 559 573 (5.3)
PUR 2 8627 493 535 7280 319 7599 (88.1) 11 69 90 195 199 (2.3)
PUR 3 15 815 3032 4102 8522 159 8681 (54.9) 80 279 375 942 965 (6.1)
PUR 4 3376 1014 1423 642 297 939 (27.8) 24 131 188 347 351 (10.4)
PLA 1a 4891 2429 2409 53 0 53 (1.1) 15 78 92 315 329 (6.7)
PLA 2a 5147 2654 2415 59 19 78 (1.5) 18 76 102 276 290 (5.6)
PLA 3 12 122 1894 2424 7212 592 7804 (64.4) 53 284 365 795 826 (6.8)
PLA 4a 6039 2959 2905 139 36 175 (2.9) 23 108 151 366 379 (6.3)
a

Food contact materials.

b

Sum of readily leachable and migrate only.

c

% of total.