The compound, used primarily as a fire retardant and plastic stabilizer, can fool a traditional test for protein content to make livestock feed appear to contain more protein than it actually does.
Other applications for pentanols are additives for lubrication oil, corrosion inhibitors, and plasticizers and stabilizers for polymer plastics (The Dow Chemical Company 2002b, c; Lappe and Hofmann 2005).
These emissions could pose hazards, especially to people living close to the incinerator; compounds of toxic heavy metals such as lead, chromium and cadmium are present in some plastic products as stabilizers and pigments, and these elements tend to end up concentrated in the ash.
They are widely applied as stabilizers of plastics, as fungicides and pesticides, and as marine antifoulants [ 1].
Being an important component of making batteries, it is also used for cadmium pigments and coatings and plating and as stabilizers for plastics.
It is also used as a UV stabilizer in plastic surface coatings to prevent polymer or food photodegradation and has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration as an indirect food additive.
BP-3 also has been used as ultraviolet stabilizer in plastic surface coatings for food packaging to prevent polymer or food photodegradation (Suzuki et al. 2005) and is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as an indirect food additive.
A whole series of lead compounds are used as stabilizers in vinyl plastics.
Organic tin compounds act as stabilizers in certain plastics and as wood preservatives.
Lignin is utilized for the manufacture of plastics, ion-exchange resins, soil stabilizers, rubber reinforcers, fertilizers, vanillin, tanning agents, stabilizers for asphalt emulsions and dispersants for oil-well drilling and for ceramic processing.
