Possibilities and Limitations of Migration Modeling

Plastic Packaging: Interactions with Food and Pharmaceuticals, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 499-522

  Mercea, Peter ^a   Piringer, Otto ^b  

^a Fabes Forschungs GmbH ^*  (Germany)

^b FABES Forschungs GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diffusion coefficients; Migration modeling; Partition coefficient; Plastic packaging; Plastic properties

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890585712     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527621422.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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