Additive migration from plastics into foods [electronic resource] : a guide for analytical chemists / T.R. Crompton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crompton, T. R. (Thomas Roy)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food contamination.

Plastics in packaging.

Food--Analysis.

Food.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Place of Publication:

Shawbury, U.K. : Smithers Rapra Technology Ltd., c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Plastics are now being used on a large scale for the packaging of fatty and aqueous foodstuffs and beverages, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic. Thus it is likely that some transfer of polymer additives will occur - adventitious impurities such as monomers, oligomers, catalyst remnants and residual polymerisation solvents and low molecular weight polymer fractions - from the plastic into the packaged material with the consequent risk of a toxic hazard to the consumer. This book covers all aspects of the migration of additives into food and gives detailed information on the analytical determinat

Contents:

Contents; Preface; 1 Additive Migration from Plastics intoPackaged Commodities; 2 Types of Polymers Used inCommodity Packaging; 3 Non-Polymeric Components of Plastics; 4 Determination of Antioxidants; 5 Determination of Ultraviolet Stabilisersin Extractants; 6 Determination of Plasticisers in Extractants; 7 Determination of Organotin ThermalStabilisers in Extractants; 8 Determination of Organic SulfurCompounds in Extractants; 9 Determination of Polydimethyl Siloxanesin Extractants; 10 Determination of Lubricants inExtraction Liquids; 11 Determination of Monomers andOligomers in Extractants

12 Analysis of Polymer Extraction LiquidsContaining More Than One Migrant13 Determination of Additives and theirBreakdown Products in Extractants; 14 Additive Migration Theory; 15 Gas Barrier Properties of FoodPackaging Plastic Films; 16 Legislative Aspects of the Use ofAdditives in Packaging Plastics; 17 Direct Determination of Migrantsfrom Polymers into Foodstuffs; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611775056

1-281-77505-3

1-84735-057-7