Concentrations of Organophosphate Esters and Their Specific Metabolites in Food in Southeast Queensland, Australia: Is Dietary Exposure an Important Pathway of Organophosphate Esters and Their Metabolites?

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Abstract

There were several studies that measured organophosphate esters (OPEs) in foods to assess the dietary intake of OPEs but none has measured OPE metabolites (mOPEs) in the same samples. In this study, we measured the concentrations of OPEs and mOPEs in 87 food samples and in five tap water samples collected in Queensland, Australia belonging to eight food groups. Tris(2-chloroisopropyl) phosphate (TCIPP) (detection frequency (DF), 77%) and tributyl phosphate (TBP) (DF, 71%), were the most frequently detected OPEs, while dibutyl phosphate (DBP) (DF, 84%) and diphenyl phosphate (DPhP) (DF, 86%) were the most frequently detected mOPEs. Vegetables had the highest concentrations of both ∑₉OPEs and ∑₁₁mOPEs, with the mean concentrations of 2.6 and 17 ng/g wet weight. Compared with dust ingestion and inhalation, dietary intake was the most important exposure pathway for tris(2-chloroethyl) phosphate (TCEP) (4.1 ng/kg bw/day), TCIPP (25 ng/kg bw/day), and TBP (6.7 ng/kg bw/day), accounting for >75% of total intake. Furthermore, we found that the intakes of some mOPEs, that is, bis(1,3-dichloroisopropyl) phosphate (BDCIPP) and DPhP from diet were typically higher than that of their parent OPEs. Such high levels of mOPE intakes could interfere with the utilization of mOPEs as biomarkers for assessing OPE exposure and warrant further investigation.

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