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Toxicol Rep

Title:		"Diacetyl and 2,3-pentanedione in breathing zone and area air during large-scale commercial coffee roasting, blending and grinding processes"
Author(s):		McCoy MJ; Hoppe Parr KA; Anderson KE; Cornish J; Haapala M; Greivell J;
Address:		"GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc., 20900 Swenson Drive, Suite 150, Waukesha, WI 53186, United States. Gasmet Technologies, Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Gasmet Technologies, Oy., Helsinki, Finland. Raeco, Libertyville, IL, United States"
Journal Title:		Toxicol Rep
Year:		2017
Volume:		20170221
Issue:
Page Number:		113 - 122
DOI:		10.1016/j.toxrep.2017.01.004
ISSN/ISBN:		2214-7500 (Print) 2214-7500 (Electronic) 2214-7500 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Recently described scientific literature has identified the airborne presence of 2,3-butanedione (diacetyl) and 2,3-pentanedione at concentrations approaching or potentially exceeding the current American Conference of Industrial Hygienists' (ACGIH) Threshold Limit Values (TLVs) at commercial coffee roasting and production facilities. Newly established National Institutes of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Recommended Exposure Limits for diacetyl and 2,3-pentanedione are even more conservative. Chronic exposure to these alpha-diketones at elevated airborne concentrations has been associated with lung damage, specifically bronchiolitis obliterans, most notably in industrial food processing facilities. Workers at a large commercial coffee roaster were monitored for both eight-hour and task-based, short-term, 15-min sample durations for airborne concentrations of these alpha-diketones during specific work processes, including the coffee bean roasting, blending and grinding processes, during two separate 8-h work periods. Additionally, the authors performed real-time Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) analysis of the workers' breathing zone as well as the area workplace air for the presence of organic compounds to determine the sources, as well as quantitate and identify various organic compounds proximal to the roasting and grinding processes. Real-time FTIR measurements provided both the identification and quantitation of diacetyl and 2,3-pentanedione, as well as other organic compounds generated during coffee bean roasting and grinding operations. Airborne concentrations of diacetyl in the workers' breathing zone, as eight-hour time-weighted averages were less than the ACGIH TLVs for diacetyl, while concentrations of 2,3-pentanedione were below the limit of detection in all samples. Short-term breathing zone samples revealed airborne concentrations for diacetyl that exceeded the ACGIH short-term exposure limit of 0.02 parts per million (ppm) in two samples collected on a grinder operator. FTIR analysis of air samples collected from both the workers' breathing zone and area air samples revealed low concentrations of various organics with diacetyl and 2,3-pentanedione at concentrations less than the limit of detection for the FTIR methods. Neither the breathing zone nor area air samples measured using the FTIR reflected airborne concentrations of organic compounds that, when detected, approached the ACGIH TLVs or regulatory standards, when available. FTIR analysis of headspace of ground coffee beans revealed ppm concentrations of expected alpha diketones, carbon monoxide and other volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Coffee roasting and grinding, with adequate building ventilation and typical roasted bean handling and grinding, appears to generate very low, if any, concentrations of diacetyl and 2,3-pentanedione in the workers' breathing zones. This study also confirmed via FTIR that roasted coffee beans naturally generate alpha-diketones and other organic compounds as naturally occurring compounds resultant of the roasting and then released during the grinding process"
Keywords:		"2, 3-Butanedione 2, 3-Pentanedione Alpha-diketones Coffee grinding Coffee roasting Diacetyl Exposure assessment Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR);"
Notes:		"PubMed-not-MEDLINEMcCoy, Michael J Hoppe Parr, Kimberly A Anderson, Kim E Cornish, Jim Haapala, Matti Greivell, John eng Ireland 2017/09/30 Toxicol Rep. 2017 Feb 21; 4:113-122. doi: 10.1016/j.toxrep.2017.01.004. eCollection 2017"