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J.Health Sci., 50(1), 101-107, 2004
Study of 1,4-Dioxane Intake in the Total Diet Using the
Market-Basket Method
Tetsuji Nishimura,*, a Seiichiro
Iizuka,b, 1 Nobuyuki
Kibune,b, 2 and Masanori
Andoa
aDivision of Environmental Chemistry, National Institute of Health Sciences, 1-18-1 Kamiyoga, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-8501,
Japan and bSection of Applied Testing, Japan Food Research Laboratories Osaka Branch, 3-1 Toyotsu-cho, Suita-shi, Osaka
564-0051, Japan
1,4-Dioxane has been classified by the US Environmental Protection Agency and the International Agency
for Research on Cancer as a compound that may be carcinogenic in humans. Although there are several reports
of 1,4-dioxane being detected in the environment, such as in tap water, there have been few reports on the
content of 1,4-dioxane in food. We therefore studied the intake of 1,4-dioxane in food based on the average
intake of food in the Kanto area of Japan as reported by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. The food
was cooked in the normal manner and then homogenized in a mixer. A 20 g of sample of the homogenate was
added to a solution of the purified water with
0.2 mu g of 1,4-dioxane-d8 as a surrogate and the 200 ml azeotropic
solution was recovered using the steam distillation method. This solution was applied to a pair of active carbon
solid-phase cartridges and the analyte was eluted from each cartridge with dichloromethane. The eluted
solution was prepared for gas chromatographic/mass spectrometric analysis by reduction to a volume of 1 ml under
a gentle stream of nitrogen. The detection limit of the analysis was
2 mu g/kg. We found that the 1,4-dioxane content of 12 food groups ranged between
2 mu g/kg and 15 mu g/kg. From these results, the total daily intake of
1,4-dioxane was calculated to be 0.440 mu g. An intake of this magnitude corresponds to 0.055% of the calculated total
daily intake (TDI) (16 mu g/kg body weight/day). This study indicates that the amount of 1,4-dioxane intake
contributed by food is very low and that this value does not represent a potential problem as it does not raise the
risk of carcinogenesis.
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