Migration modeling from food-contact plastics into foodstuffs as a new tool for consumer exposure estimation

Food Additives and Contaminants

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 920-937

  Franz, Roland ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR PROCESS ENGINEERING AND PACKAGING IVV   (Germany)

Author keywords

Consumer protection; Exposure; Food packaging; Food safety; Migration modelling

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOADIPIC ACID; 3 (3,5 DI TERT BUTYL 4 HYDROXYPHENYL)PROPIONIC ACID OCTADECYL ESTER; 4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ALKENE DERIVATIVE; BENZOPHENONE; BENZOPHENONE DERIVATIVE; BUTYLCRESOL; CAPROLACTAM; LIMONENE; NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVE; PHTHALIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PLASTIC; STYRENE; THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE; TRIACETIN; TRICLOSAN; 1,3 BUTADIENE DERIVATIVE; 1,4 DIPHENYL 1,3 BUTADIENE; 1,4-DIPHENYLBUTADIENE; CARCINOGEN; CYCLOHEXENE DERIVATIVE; TERPENE;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONSUMER; DIETARY INTAKE; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD PACKAGING; FOOD SAFETY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PACKAGING MATERIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEVERAGE; CHEESE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD; KINETICS; SAFETY; SWEET ORANGE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEVERAGES; BUTADIENES; CARCINOGENS; CHEESE; CITRUS SINENSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYCLOHEXENES; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD PACKAGING; HUMANS; KINETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NAPHTHALENES; PLASTICS; POULTRY PRODUCTS; SAFETY; STYRENE; TERPENES;

EID: 28244454173     PISSN: 0265203X     EISSN: 14645122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02652030500157700     Document Type: Review

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