Global migration from styrenics to liquid food simulants.
Chemical inertness of typical styrene polymers used in food packaging was investigated by "global migration" measurements. Absorption of liquid food simulants by plastics was also studied. Migrated compounds, detected and identified by gaschromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), are styrene (monomer) and styrene dimers. All migration values, measured under different experimental conditions, turn out to be lower than the overall migration limit, as fixed by current legislation.
Department of Inorganic, Metallorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Padova, via Marzolo 1, 35131 Padova, Italy.
Nicola
N
Brunelli
Roberto
R
Nocci
Franco
F
Magno
D000042:Absorption; D005506:Food Contamination; D018857:Food Packaging; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health; D011640:Public Policy; D013343:Styrenes / Q000737:chemistry*
D013343:Styrenes