Analytical Measurements of Package Components for Unintentional Migrants

Abstract

The results of selected studies dealing with the transfer or migration of indirect additives from food contact materials to foodstuffs and/or their appropriate simulants have been reviewed in terms of the polymeric packaging material or packaging article, specific migrant, nature of the contact phase, level of migrant transferred under the conditions of test, and the analytical method employed to monitor com positional changes. The references presented on the analytical procedures developed for quantitation of migrated species are intended as a guide to the literature, where only representative studies have been reviewed.