Food contamination with organic materials in perspective: Packaging materials as the largest and least controlled source? A view focusing on the European situation

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 529-535

  Grob, Koni ^a   Biedermann, Maurus ^a   Scherbaum, Ellen ^b   Roth, Maria ^b   Rieger, Karl ^c  

^a Official Food Control Authority of the Canton of Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b Chemical and Veterinarian State Laboratory   (Germany)

^c Institute for Food Investigation of the State Vorarlberg   (Austria)

Author keywords

Can coatings; European legislation; Food contact materials; Food contaminants; Packaging materials; Threshold of control

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC COMPOUND; PESTICIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EUROPE; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD PACKAGING; FOOD PRESERVATION; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; WATER SUPPLY;

EUROPE; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD PACKAGING; FOOD PRESERVATION; HUMANS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PESTICIDES; PUBLIC HEALTH; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 33748556231     PISSN: 10408398     EISSN: 15497852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10408390500295490     Document Type: Article

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