Theoretical treatment of pollutant transfer in a finite volume of food from a polymer packaging made of a recycled film and a functional barrier

Food Additives and Contaminants

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 293-306

  Laoubi, S ^a   Vergnaud, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Finite food volume; Functional barrier; Process modelling

Indexed keywords

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD PACKAGING; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECYCLING; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0029965969     PISSN: 0265203X     EISSN: 14645122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02652039609374411     Document Type: Article

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