Evaluation of some screening methods for the analysis of contaminants in recycled polyethylene terephthalate flakes

Food Additives and Contaminants

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 668-677

  Nerin C ^a   Albinana J ^a   Philo, M R ^b   Castle, L ^b   Raffael, B ^c   Simoneau, C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Analysis; Food packaging; HS GC MS; Migration; PET; Recycled plastics; SFE GC MS

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE; POLYMER; SILICON; SODIUM;

ANALYTIC METHOD; AROMA; ARTICLE; BEVERAGE; CLEANING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FLAVOR; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD PACKAGING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LIQUID LIQUID EXTRACTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECYCLING; SAMPLE; SCREENING TEST; SPIKE; SUPERCRITICAL FLUID EXTRACTION; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

BEVERAGES; CALCIUM; CHROMATOGRAPHY, SUPERCRITICAL FLUID; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FLAVORING AGENTS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD PACKAGING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; SILICON; SODIUM;

EID: 0043065417     PISSN: 0265203X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0265203031000109503     Document Type: Article

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