Measurement uncertainty associated with overall migration testing

Food Additives and Contaminants

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 256-264

  Castle, L ^a   Macarthur, R ^a   Mead, E M ^a   Read, W A ^a  

^a CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analytical tolerance; Global migration; Overall migration; Simulants; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

NYLON; OLIVE OIL; PLASTIC; POLYAMIDE; POLYETHYLENE; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE; POLYPROPYLENE; POLYSTYRENE; POLYVINYLCHLORIDE; VOLATILE AGENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; LABORATORY TEST; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; PACKAGING MATERIAL; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; STANDARD; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; UNCERTAINTY;

DIETARY FATS, UNSATURATED; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD PACKAGING; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; PLANT OILS; PLASTICIZERS; PLASTICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 1842434563     PISSN: 0265203X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02652030310001656343     Document Type: Article

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