Plasticizer Migration: Ensuring Safety in Food Packaging
Plasticizer Migration: Ensuring Safety in Food Packaging New plasticizer technologies allow formulators to achieve performance requirements while meeting best practices for food safety and migration By William Arendt, Marianne M. Conner, Emily McBride
Migration of Chemical Compounds from Packaging Polymers
Researchers study the migration of food-packaging compounds by exposing food or food-simulating liquids to conventional and microwave heating and storage conditions, primarily through chromatographic or spectroscopic methods; from these data, they develop kinetic and risk assessment models.
Migration of nonylphenol and plasticizers from polyvinyl
2.8 Migration test into foods. The stretch film (film 1, 18 cm 2) covered 20 g of food in a Petri dish at 5°C for 24 hr. Cooked hot food (20 g) was immediately covered with the film and stored at room temperature for 30 min. The test solutions were prepared as follows and analyzed using GC/MS. Analytical data were corrected for their recovaries.
Migration of plasticisers from the gaskets of lids into oily
There are still too many products on the Swiss market, where the migration of plasticisers into oily food exceeds the legal limits.The availability of non-PVC lids mitigates against the exposure of the population to plasticisers in food. Food producers must take more care to ensure their packaging material is suitable for the food they pack.
Migration of plasticizers from printing inks into foods - PubMed
The migration of plasticizer increased with storage time of the wrapped product; for dibutyl phthalate, for example, levels increased from 0.2 to 6.7 mg/kg over the period from 0 to 180 days storage of a chocolate-coated confectionery product. A small retail survey (47 samples) of confectionery, snack products and biscuits wrapped in printed
- Do plasticizers migrate into acidic foodstuffs?
- Thus, it has been demonstrated that a contact for prolonged time up to 40 °C did not promote the migration of plasticizers into acidic foodstuffs, but the migration of plasticizers to fatty foods can be high (75%–90% loss of plasticizers) and limit the use of PVC films as fatty food packaging. 1. Introduction
- Do plasticizers migrate into food simulants?
- In addition, commercial films have been evaluated as to plasticizers concentration and specific migration into food simulants. It was found that 25% of the samples comply with the specific migration limits for fatty foods contact while 50% might be used for contact with fatty foods with FRF 2–5.
- How much plasticizer migrates to the packed food?
- The quantity of plasticizer that migrates to the packed food depends on several factors such as the fat contents of the food, type and initial concentration of the plasticizer in the packaging material, storage time and temperature and the contact area ( Goulas, Salpea, & Kontominas, 2008 ).
- Why do chemicals migrate from food packaging into food products?
- The migration of chemicals from food packaging into food products is influenced by various physical and chemical factors. One key factor is temperature; higher temperatures can increase the rate of migration by enhancing the diffusion of chemicals from the packaging material into the food.
- Can monomers in plastic packaging trigger migration?
- Monomers in plastic packaging can trigger migration. Migration is the process of transferring a substance from the food packaging material to the food product. This migration affects the aroma, smell and taste of the product and has an impact on human health (Sarinah Basri et al., 2021).
- Do plasticizers migrate better than SML?
- Migration performance of conventional and new plasticizers were investigated. Distinct migration was due to different interactions between the plasticizers. Correlation between migration and tensile properties of the films was done. Most of commercial samples showed migration lower than SML established.
