Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Epoxidized soybean oil better known by its acronym ESBO is a plasticizer used in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastics. It serves as a plasticizer and as a scavenger for hydrochloric acid liberated from PVC when the PVC undergoes heat treatment.A few EU surveys have shown fairly high levels of ESBO in foods in which about 4% were above the current specific migration limit (SML) for ESBO of 60 mg/kg and about 15% of the samples were above 30 mg ESBO/kg food.
