Migration of Plastic Constituents

Plastic Packaging: Interactions with Food and Pharmaceuticals, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 349-415

  Franz, Roland ^a   Störmer, Angela ^a  

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

Author keywords

Adsorption; Analysis of migration solutions; Development of methods; Development of validation; Development of verification; Direct migration measurement; Extraction; Indirect migration assessment; Migration; Migration into food simulants; Migration into foods; Non intentionally added substances (NIAS); Not regulated migrants; Plastic constituents; Plastic packaging; Sources of errors

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349460194     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527621422.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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