Sewage treatment plants fail to remove artificial sweeteners completely from waste water. What’s more, these pollutants contaminate waters downstream and may still be present in our drinking water. Thanks to their new robust analytical method, which simultaneously extracts and analyses seven commonly used artificial sweeteners, Marco Scheurer, Heinz-Jürgen Brauch and Frank Thomas Lange from the Water Technology Center in Karlsruhe, Germany, were able to demonstrate the presence of several artificial sweeteners in waste water.
Their findings are published online this week in Springer’s journal Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry.
To read the full article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090617123650.htm
If you enjoyed this, would you please make a donation?
Even $1 or $5 helps us to serve you.
No comments:
Post a Comment