Food packaging and migration of food contact materials: Will epidemiologists rise to the neotoxic challenge?

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 592-594

  Muncke, Jane ^a   Myers, John Peterson ^b,c   Scheringer, Martin ^d   Porta, Miquel ^e  

^a Food Packaging Forum   (Switzerland)

^b Environmental Health Sciences   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOOD PROCESSING; TOXICOLOGY;

ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD PACKAGING;

EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD PACKAGING;

EID: 84901951592     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2013-202593     Document Type: Article

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