• DOI:10.1039/B517844B
Corpus ID: 9416637

Contamination of Canadian and European bottled waters with antimony from PET containers.

@article{Shotyk2006ContaminationOC,
  title={Contamination of Canadian and European bottled waters with antimony from PET containers.},
  author={W. Shotyk and M. Krachler and B. Chen},
  journal={Journal of environmental monitoring : JEM},
  year={2006},
  volume={8 2},
  pages={
          288-92
        }
}

• W. Shotyk, M. Krachler, B. Chen
• Published 2006
• Chemistry, Medicine
• Journal of environmental monitoring : JEM

Using clean lab methods and protocols developed for measuring Sb in polar snow and ice, we report the abundance of Sb in fifteen brands of bottled water from Canada and forty-eight from Europe. Comparison with the natural abundance of Sb in pristine groundwaters, water bottled commercially in polypropylene, analyses of source waters prior to bottling, and addition of uncontaminated groundwater to PET bottles, provides unambiguous evidence of Sb leaching from the containers. In contrast to the… Expand