Compliance work for polyolefins in food contact: Results of an official control campaign

McCombie, Gregor; Hötzer, Karsten; Daniel, Jürg; Biedermann, Maurus; Eicher, Angela; Grob, Koni

doi:10.1016/j.foodcont.2015.06.058

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“…For example, Articles 15 and 16 of European Regulation 10/2011 require that a Declaration of Compliance (DoC) be issued at each stage of the plastic-FCM manufacturing process describing work that has been performed to achieve compliance with legal requirements and indicating any additional compliance work that must be performed by downstream users, and demonstrate that supporting documentation for the information reported in the DoC also must be available to authorities on demand ( EC 2011 ). However, it was recently reported that manufacturers of nine plastic FCM products failed to provide supporting documentation for DoCs within six months of a request by Swiss food control authorities ( McCombie et al. 2016 ).…”

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Scientific Challenges in the Risk Assessment of Food Contact Materials

Muncke

Backhaus

Geueke

et al. 2017

Environ Health Perspect

131

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Background:Food contact articles (FCAs) are manufactured from food contact materials (FCMs) that include plastics, paper, metal, glass, and printing inks. Chemicals can migrate from FCAs into food during storage, processing, and transportation. Food contact materials’ safety is evaluated using chemical risk assessment (RA). Several challenges to the RA of FCAs exist.Objectives:We review regulatory requirements for RA of FCMs in the United States and Europe, identify gaps in RA, and highlight opportunities for improving the protection of public health. We intend to initiate a discussion in the wider scientific community to enhance the safety of food contact articles.Discussion:Based on our evaluation of the evidence, we conclude that current regulations are insufficient for addressing chemical exposures from FCAs. RA currently focuses on monomers and additives used in the manufacture of products, but it does not cover all substances formed in the production processes. Several factors hamper effective RA for many FCMs, including a lack of information on chemical identity, inadequate assessment of hazardous properties, and missing exposure data. Companies make decisions about the safety of some food contact chemicals (FCCs) without review by public authorities. Some chemical migration limits cannot be enforced because analytical standards are unavailable.Conclusion:We think that exposures to hazardous substances migrating from FCAs require more attention. We recommend a) limiting the number and types of chemicals authorized for manufacture and b) developing novel approaches for assessing the safety of chemicals in FCAs, including unidentified chemicals that form during or after production. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP644

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Scientific Challenges in the Risk Assessment of Food Contact Materials

Muncke

Backhaus

Geueke

et al. 2017

Environ Health Perspect

131

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“…The more polar constituents are located in the lower part of the plot and consist of irregularly distributed spots. The centre is dominated by a row of oxidized hydrocarbons …”

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“…Comprehensive two dimensional gas chromatography (GCxGC) analysis was described previously . A TRACE gas chromatograph from Thermo Scientific (Milan, Italy) with a two‐stage thermal loop‐modulator ZX‐2 from Zoex Corporation (Huston, US) was used either with flame ionization detection (FID) or a Bench TOF‐dx–mass spectrometer (Almsco International, Llantrisant, UK).…”

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Taped Barrier Test for Internal Bags Used in Boxes of Recycled Paperboard: The Role of the Paperboard and Its Consequence for the Test

Biedermann-Brem¹,

Biedermann²,

Grob³

2016

Packag Technol Sci

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Internal bags with a functional barrier are a promising solution to render recycled paperboard acceptable for food packaging. Producers and users of such bags as well as control authorities need a tool to evaluate whether a bag satisfies the requirements of safety. In the previously proposed methods, the criterion focused on the permeability of the barrier layer. This neglected the influence of absorption or adsorption of the substances in the paperboard and the plastic of the bag. To take these contributions into account, it was proposed to change the criterion and use the percentage of the amount of (surrogate) substances in the recycled paperboard that passes into the food. This paper explains this, in particular how the method better reflects the reality in a pack of food. Firstly, donors should be prepared from recycled paperboard, as the behaviour differs from that of paper. Secondly, absorption into the paperboard seems to be a slow process. It was noted that freshly added surrogate substances were easily extracted by methyl tert-butyl ether, but the extraction yield decreased during storage over some weeks. To catch this reality of the substances in the paperboard, donors need to be conditioned before use. Finally, absorption in the paperboard may depend on the concentration, which prompted a further reduction of the amounts of the surrogate substances used for testing. It turned out that usually the hydrocarbon (C17) determines the barrier efficiency; triethyl citrate is no longer used, as it was never a relevant surrogate.

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“…Starting from 2015, the so‐called reverse set, in the specific case, mid‐polar (50% diphenyl‐polysiloxane) × nonpolar (1% vinyl–99% dimethyl polysiloxane), was preferred [33], based on previous evidence published on petroleum‐related products [95,96]. Despite preseparation of the MOSH and MOAH fraction remained necessary, a remarkable separation was obtained within the MOSH class, thus resulting in the most appropriate set of columns for the studies on the MOSH accumulation in the human body [33], and for more detailed studies on food packaging migration [89,94,97,98]. The reverse set allowed a very good separation between polypropylene POSH and MOSH, being the former more retained in the second column, while the monounsaturated polyolefin oligomers eluted between the two.…”

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“…GC × GC has been coupled both to FID and MS for confirmatory purposes, while data on quantification performed in GC × GC have been rarely reported [33,98,99]. In 2013, Purcaro et al.…”

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Evolution of hyphenated techniques for mineral oil analysis in food

Sdrigotti

Collard

Purcaro

2020

J of Separation Science

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The occurrence of mineral oil in food is known since the early 1990s, and it was discovered by chance in one of the first applications using the hyphenated LC–GC system. Since then, the relationship between hyphenated techniques and mineral oil analysis has been tightly interrelated and successful. This review aims to show and explain how this mutual interaction has driven the development of the hyphenated techniques on one side and has supported the increase of knowledge on the other, supporting the complex task of mineral oil determination in food. The paper presents the background of the mineral oil problem in food (a brief history of its finding, toxicology, and occurrence), moving then toward the analytical determination. The development of different hyphenated techniques in relation to mineral oil determination is discussed, focusing mainly on 2D techniques, such as LC–GC. The necessity of additional dimensions, such as LC–LC–GC and comprehensive approaches, such as GC × GC and LC × GC, is also discussed. Finally, the role of the hyphenation with MS is presented.

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Compliance work for polyolefins in food contact: Results of an official control campaign

Cited by 31 publications

References 16 publications

Scientific Challenges in the Risk Assessment of Food Contact Materials

Scientific Challenges in the Risk Assessment of Food Contact Materials

Taped Barrier Test for Internal Bags Used in Boxes of Recycled Paperboard: The Role of the Paperboard and Its Consequence for the Test

Evolution of hyphenated techniques for mineral oil analysis in food

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