Food Contact Materials: Migration and Analysis
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 January 2022) | Viewed by 16813
Special Issue Editor
Interests: analytical chemistry; food contact materials (intentionally added substances (IAS) and non-intentionally added substances (NIAS)); sustainability and recycling of plastics
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Dear Colleagues,
The food chain contains several steps that start from the farm and ends to the fork of consumers. Within this frame, food contact materials are defined as the objects and materials intended to come into direct or indirect contact with foodstuff, while food contact articles are defined as objects, being equipment, containers, packaging and various utensils which are clearly intended to be used for the manufacture, preparation, conservation, flow, transport or handling of foodstuffs or which are presented as such. Plastic materials are widely used in food packaging applications; however, there is increased concern because of the possible content and subsequent release of undesirable components into foodstuffs or food simulants, due to migration. During the production of these plastics, several compounds can be included, either intentionally added substances (IAS) like monomers and production chemicals (i.e antioxidants) or the so-called non-intentionally added substances (NIAS), which are generated as a result of reaction and degradation processes or due to the presence of impurities in the raw materials used for the packaging production. This category of substances might include up to several thousands of compounds, where the vast majority is unknown. As such, this Special Issue is focusing on the identification, structural elucidation, method development and validation as well as on the analysis of all the aforementioned compounds, whilst reporting all the foreseen scientific and analytical challenges.
Dr. Emmanouil Tsochatzis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Food contact materials
- Intentionally added substances (IAS)
- Non-intentionally added substances (NIAS)
- Analysis, identification and quantification
- Migration testing
- Specific migration limits
- Toxicity evaluation and assessment
- Exposure studies
- Risk assessment
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