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Artificial Sweeteners Found In German Waste And Surface Water
The method, which simultaneously extracts and analyzes seven commonly used artificial sweeteners, was developed by Marco Scheurer, Heinz-Jurgen Brauch and Frank Thomas Lange from the Water Technology Center in Karlsruhe, Germany.
A range of artificial sweeteners are commonly used in food and drinks, as well as drugs and sanitary products.
The potential health risks of artificial sweeteners have been debated for some time. Until now, only sucralose has been detected in aquatic environments.
Through the use of a new analytical method, the researchers were able to look for seven different artificial sweeteners (cyclamate, acesulfame, saccharin, aspartame, neotame, neohesperidin dihydrochalcone and sucralose) simultaneously, and show, for the first time, that a number of commonly used artificial sweeteners are present in German waste and surface water.
Scheurer and colleagues collected water samples from two sewage treatment plants in Germany, Eggenstein, Leopoldshafen and Karlsruhe, as well as from a soil aquifer treatment site located in a Mediterranean country that treats secondary effluent from a sewage treatment plant.
They tested the water samples using their new analytical method and detected four (acesulfame, saccharin, cyclamate, and sucralose) of seven artificial sweeteners in the waters from the two German sewage treatment plants, indicating incomplete elimination during waste water treatment.
Their analyzes also showed that these pollutants contaminate rivers and streams receiving water from the sewage treatment plants.
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