TY - JOUR T1 - Use of Tenax® films to demonstrate the migration of chemical contaminants from cardboard into dry food. JF - Food Addit Contam Part A Chem Anal Control Expo Risk Assess Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kathy Van Den Houwe A1 - Evrard, C A1 - Joris Van Loco A1 - Lynen, F A1 - Els Van Hoeck KW - Food Contamination KW - Food Packaging KW - Polymers AB -

Contaminants in food packaging are a challenge of our time since the packaging material itself has been found to represent a source of food contamination through the migration of substances from it. Before first use, packaging materials destined for the packaging of dry foods can be evaluated by performing migration experiments with the simulant for dry foods, Tenax®. This simulant is commercially available as a powder that is more difficult to handle during the migration experiments. This paper reports the development of a Tenax film. The film can be applied to the cardboard surface to conduct the migration test. After the migration is completed, the film can be easily extracted to determine the concentration of the contaminants in the film. Finally, the performance of the Tenax film was compared with the conventional Tenax powder for the evaluation of 15 model migrants.

VL - 34 CP - 7 U1 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28513336?dopt=Abstract M3 - 10.1080/19440049.2017.1326067 ER -