Leaching of Phthalate from Medical Devices use in Pakistani Hospitals |Biomedgrid

Phthalates (PAEs) are widely used as plasticizers in medical devices to make polyvinyl chloride flexible and soft. However, PAEs can be leached out from plasticizers undesirably and can migrate within the material over the time and can end up with direct exposure to humans, because PAEs are not chemically bound, Particularly, (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) is present within various industrial and domestic goods along with medical devices. Leaching of PAEs is the main concern for human health due to toxic health effects, such as endocrine disruptor (EDCs) carcinogenicity, breast cancer, asthma, allergies and so on. PAEs are produced all over the world around 6.0 million metric ton per PAEs expose specifically from plastic containers, like cooler, plastic bottles, soft drinks, mineral water bottles and baby feeders and medical devices.