Tyre Wear Particles Focus Tyre Toxicity Issue

We have seen issues related to Quinone 6PPD, a derivative of an additive to tyre rubber impacting upon Coho Salmon in Washington State, USA. However, at the 2022 ETRA Conference it was revealed by Nick Molden, from Emissions Analytics UK. that the majority of tyre wear particles were atmospheric and were deposited in roadside agricultural land rather than being washed down the gullies at the roadside.

Now, scientists at the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Sciences at the University of Vienna have shown that chemicals released from tyres do, in fact, enter the food stream and could end up being consumed — and that Quinone 6PPD might be entering the food chain.

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https://www.tyreandrubberrecycling.com/articles/news/tyre-wear-particles-focus-tyre-toxicity-issue/