Establishment of a reference collection of additives and an analytical handbook of reference data to support enforcement of EU regulations on food contact plastics

Food Additives and Contaminants

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 855-860

  Van Lierop, Ben ^a   Castle, Laurence ^b   Feigenbaum, Alexandre ^c   Ehlert, Karl ^a   Boenke, Achim ^d  

^a Food Inspection Service Utrecht   (Netherlands)

^b CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^c Centre de Physicochimie et Biotechnologies Agro industrielles   (France)

^d EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Additives; Handbook; Plastics; Reference substance; Spectra

Indexed keywords

PLASTIC;

ARTICLE; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD PACKAGING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LAW; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REFERENCE VALUE;

EID: 0031726650     PISSN: 0265203X     EISSN: 14645122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02652039809374719     Document Type: Article

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