Environmental Impact of the Presence, Distribution, and Use of Artificial Sweeteners as Emerging Sources of Pollution

Naik, Ab Qayoom; Zafar, Tabassum; Shrivastava, Vinoy K.

doi:10.1155/2021/6624569

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“…They are recognized as a new class of environmental contaminants due to their extreme persistence and ubiquitous nature. The continuous introduction of artificial sweeteners into the aquatic environments is attributed to their resistant behaviour to wastewater treatment processes [ 68 ]. However, their behaviour, fate and long-term ecotoxicological contribution in water resources is, by large, still unknown.…”

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The Threat of Food Additive Occurrence in the Environment—A Case Study on the Example of Swimming Pools

Lempart

Kudlek

Brukało

et al. 2023

Foods

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Widespread use and the continuous increase in consumption has intensified the presence of food additives and their metabolites in the environment. The growing awareness that newly identified compounds in the environment may cause a real threat, both to the environment and to future generations due to the transformation they undergo in ecosystems, makes this topic a leading problem of engineering and environmental protection. This manuscript highlights the relevance of finding these compounds in water. The exposure routes and the threat, both to human health and to the aquatic environment, have been discussed. The research presented in the article was aimed at determining the degree of contamination of swimming pools with food additives. Thirteen food additives have been identified in ten tested pools. The most frequently found were antioxidants (E320, E321) and preservatives (E211, E210), which were present in all of the tested swimming pools, both public and in private backyards. Ascorbic acid (E300) and citric acid (E330) occurred in all of the tested private swimming pools, while aspartame (E951, sweetener) and canthaxanthin (E161g, colour) were identified only in private pools. The hazard statements according to the European Chemicals Agency indicate that the identified compounds may cause both immediate effects (skin or eye irritation, allergic reactions) and also long-lasting effects, e.g., damaged fertility or genetic defects.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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The Threat of Food Additive Occurrence in the Environment—A Case Study on the Example of Swimming Pools

Lempart

Kudlek

Brukało

et al. 2023

Foods

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“… 32 This could also have an environmental impact, since artificial sweeteners to a huge extent pass through the digestive tract and urinary excretion system unaltered and the wastewater treatment plants are not equipped to retrieve artificial sweeteners properly, which causes them to end up polluting many aquatic environments. 33 With rising antimicrobial resistance as a global public health burden, generating hundred thousands of deaths annually, a field recognized to be further investigated. 34…”

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“… 226 If we could increase our intake of plant-based diets, grains and fermented nutrients and limit the intake of red meat and likely artificial sweeteners, this could not only reduce the risk of burden of lifestyle diseases but also reduce greenhouse gas emission and increase the resistance against environmental threats, such as air and water pollution. 33 , 227 …”

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Sweet, bloody consumption – what we eat and how it affects vascular ageing, the BBB and kidney health in CKD

Schwarz,

Hernandez,

Arefin

et al. 2024

Gut Microbes

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In today’s industrialized society food consumption has changed immensely toward heightened red meat intake and use of artificial sweeteners instead of grains and vegetables or sugar, respectively. These dietary changes affect public health in general through an increased incidence of metabolic diseases like diabetes and obesity, with a further elevated risk for cardiorenal complications. Research shows that high red meat intake and artificial sweeteners ingestion can alter the microbial composition and further intestinal wall barrier permeability allowing increased transmission of uremic toxins like p-cresyl sulfate, indoxyl sulfate, trimethylamine n-oxide and phenylacetylglutamine into the blood stream causing an array of pathophysiological effects especially as a strain on the kidneys, since they are responsible for clearing out the toxins. In this review, we address how the burden of the Western diet affects the gut microbiome in altering the microbial composition and increasing the gut permeability for uremic toxins and the detrimental effects thereof on early vascular aging, the kidney per se and the blood-brain barrier, in addition to the potential implications for dietary changes/interventions to preserve the health issues related to chronic diseases in future.

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“…Acesulfame is one of the most commonly used artificial sweeteners in low-calorie food and beverages, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics. 1,2 The global consumption of acesulfame, which was excreted unchanged via the kidney, led to its widespread presence in domestic wastewater (typically between 10 and 100 μg L -1 ), 3 groundwater (up to 5 μg L -1 ), 4 seawater (0.57-9.9 μg L -1 ), 5 and tap water (up to 2.6 μg L -1 ). 6 Acesulfame concentrations of up to 2.5 mg L -1 were reported in effluents from European wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs).…”

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A novel sulfatase for acesulfame degradation in wastewater treatment plants as evidenced fromShinellastrains

Liu,

Rohwerder,

Bonatelli

et al. 2024

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The artificial sweetener acesulfame is a persistent pollutant in wastewater worldwide. So far, only a few bacterial isolates were recently found to degrade acesulfame efficiently. InBoseaandChelatococcusstrains, a Mn2+-dependent metallo-β-lactamase-type sulfatase and an amidase signature family enzyme catalyze acesulfame hydrolysis via acetoacetamide-N-sulfonate (ANSA) to acetoacetate. Here, we describe a new acesulfame sulfatase inShinellastrains isolated from German wastewater treatment plants. Their genomes do not encode the Mn2+-dependent sulfatase. Instead, a formylglycine-dependent sulfatase gene was found, together with the ANSA amidase gene on a plasmid shared by all known acesulfame-degradingShinellastrains. Heterologous expression, shotgun proteomics and size exclusion chromatography corroborated the physiological function of theShinellaenzyme as a Mn2+-independent acesulfame sulfatase. Since both theBosea/Chelatococcussulfatase and the novelShinellasulfatase are absent in other bacterial genomes or metagenome assembled genomes, we surveyed 60 tera base pairs of wastewater-associated metagenome raw datasets. TheBosea/Chelatococcussulfatase gene was regularly found from 2014 on, particularly in North America, Europe and East Asia, whereas theShinellasulfatase gene was first detected in 2020. The completeShinellapathway is only present in five datasets from China, Finland and Mexico, suggesting that it emerged quite recently in wastewater treatment facilities.

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Environmental Impact of the Presence, Distribution, and Use of Artificial Sweeteners as Emerging Sources of Pollution

Cited by 22 publications

References 78 publications

The Threat of Food Additive Occurrence in the Environment—A Case Study on the Example of Swimming Pools

The Threat of Food Additive Occurrence in the Environment—A Case Study on the Example of Swimming Pools

Sweet, bloody consumption – what we eat and how it affects vascular ageing, the BBB and kidney health in CKD

A novel sulfatase for acesulfame degradation in wastewater treatment plants as evidenced fromShinellastrains

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