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News Release from: Smithers Rapra
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Team on 14 November 2007
Report details food-safe coatings
Coatings and Inks for Food Contact Materials attempts to cover all the coatings and inks products used in food contact scenarios.
Smithers Rapra has published a report entitled Coatings and Inks for Food Contact Materials This review report has, as its origin, an FSA project on coatings and inks that was carried out at Smithers Rapra from 2005 until 2007
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 4 Aug 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The objective of this project was to assess the potential for the migration of substances from coatings and inks that were used in food packaging applications.
As a significant amount of work had already been carried out on coatings that were in direct contact with food, a boundary was set that only coatings and inks in nondirect food contact situations would be considered.
Coatings and Inks for Food Contact Materials attempts to cover all the coatings and inks products used in food contact scenarios.
Hence, direct and nondirect contact situations are included throughout the food chain, for example harvesting, processing, transportation, packaging and cooking.
In practice, this encompasses an extremely wide range of polymer systems and formulations and an emphasis has been placed on coatings and inks used in food packaging, as this is usually regarded as representing the most important application category with respect to the potential for migration to occur.
With respect to food packaging, all three of the major material classes are covered: metal, paper and board and plastic.
In addition to a thorough introduction to the polymers and additives that are used to produce coatings and inks, there are also chapters covering the regulation of these materials, the migration and analytical tests that are performed on them to assess their suitability for food contact applications, the migration data that have been published and the areas in the field that are receiving the most attention for research and development.
This review report will be of interest to those working with the packaging of food and beverages and also to those who are studying food packaging/processing.
It is accompanied by around 400 abstracts compiled from the Polymer Library, to facilitate further reading on this subject.
A subject index and a company index are included.
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