Investigation on mercury migration discipline in different paper‐plastic food packaging containers

Peng, Xianglian; Fu, Hongjun; Hu, Jinbo; Luo, Feijun

doi:10.1111/1750-3841.15060

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“…14 Toxic effects of mercury have been reported even at lower concentrations in humans. [38][39][40] Therefore, it would be worthwhile to study the leaching from the packaging material and reconsider the permissible limit if proven.…”

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Assessment of Arsenic, Vanadium, Mercury, and Cadmium in Food and Drug Packaging

Mukhi,

Rukmini,

Ajay Manjrekar

et al. 2024

F1000Res

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Background Food and drug packaging materials are an integral part of our everyday life. Noxious elements can inadvertently be included in packaging materials in various stages of their production. Adulterants, adhesives, colorants and heavy metal interference are the common sources of contamination in food packaging materials. Heavy metal toxicity has far-reaching ill effects on living organisms. The present study aimed at qualitatively and quantitatively analysing heavy metal content of various materials that are used for food and drug packaging in India. Methods The qualitative detection was done by rapid assay and heavy metals were quantified with the help of inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES). A total of thirteen types of food and drug packaging materials were procured from local market and analysed for four heavy metals viz. arsenic (As), vanadium (V), mercury (Hg) and cadmium (Cd). The concentration of each heavy metal in the samples was compared with the permissible values published by the European Council. Results Heavy metals were qualitatively detected in ten out of thirteen samples. Among the ten samples mercury and arsenic were detected the most followed by cadmium and vanadium. Quantitative estimation by ICP-OES showed presence of vanadium and cadmium in ten samples and arsenic and mercury in all the thirteen samples above the permissible range. Conclusions The notable elevation in mercury concentration, followed by cadmium, arsenic and vanadium registering the least, presents a potential health hazard to consumers and compromises the food quality.

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Assessment of Arsenic, Vanadium, Mercury, and Cadmium in Food and Drug Packaging

Mukhi,

Rukmini,

Ajay Manjrekar

et al. 2024

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“…14 Toxic effects of mercury have been reported even at lower concentrations in humans. 34 – 36 Therefore, it would be worthwhile to study the leaching from the packaging material and reconsider the admissible limit if proven.…”

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Assessment of heavy metals in food and drug packaging materials

et al. 2022

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Background: Food and drug packaging materials are an integral part of our everyday life. Noxious elements can inadvertently be included in packaging materials in various stages of their production. Adulterants, adhesives, colorants and heavy metal interference are the common sources of contamination in food packaging materials. Heavy metal toxicity has far-reaching ill effects on living organisms. The present study aimed at qualitatively and quantitatively analysing heavy metal contamination of various materials that are used for food and drug packaging in India. Methods: The qualitative detection was done by rapid assay and heavy metals were quantified with the help of inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES). A total of 13 types of food and drug packaging materials were procured from local market and analysed for four heavy metals viz. arsenic (As), vanadium (V), mercury (Hg) and cadmium (Cd). The concentration of each heavy metal in the samples was compared with permitted values published by the European Council. Results: Of the 13 samples, heavy metals were qualitatively detected in 10 samples. ICP-OES values for quantitative estimation showed presence of heavy metal above permissible range in 10 of the studied samples for vanadium, all samples for arsenic, two samples for mercury and one sample for cadmium. Arsenic was found to be the commonest heavy metal contaminant, present in 13 samples above permissible limit. Conclusions: The significantly higher concentration of heavy metal poses a potential health risk to the consumer and affects the quality of the food.

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“…Several studies on food contact materials have focused on the migration behavior of fluorescent brighteners (Ji et al, 2020), antioxidants (Kang et al, 2018;Yang et al, 2016), heavy metals (Jiang et al, 2019;Peng et al, 2020), and phthalate plasticizers (Prasannan et al, 2017) in single-use plastic packaging materials. Because of the difficulty in directly analyzing and detecting the migrating components in foods, suitable food simulants are selected for alternative studies (Lago et al, 2019;Van Den Houwe et al, 2016).…”

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Migration behavior of photoinitiators in polyethylene-coated paper for takeaway fast food

Lang

Liu

et al. 2023

Qual. Assur. Saf. Crops Foods

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The migration of photoinitiators (PIs): benzophenone (BP), ethyl 4-dimethylaminobenzoate (EDAB), and 4-chlorobenzophenone (CBP), from polyethylene (PE)-coated paper to 4% (v/v) acetic acid and 10% (v/v) saltsimulated food solution was quantitatively analyzed using gas chromatography–mass spectrometry. The migration behavior of the three PIs was studied under three specific working conditions: conventional heating, microwave power, and random vibration level. The migration rate of the three PIs in acidic food simulants was ranked from BP > EDAB > CBP under the specific working conditions. The mobility of the three PIs increased with increasing temperature, microwave power, and random vibration acceleration in 4% (v/v) acetic acid by 10, 10, and 15%, respectively. The experimental migration data of three PIs in PE-coated paper under different temperatures and microwave powers were used to establish the Crank monolayer migration model according to Fick’s second law. The diffusion coefficient D increased with an increase in experimental conditions. According to the migration data under the condition of random vibration level, a mathematical model conforming to the Fick model was established, fitting the migration process. These results showed that conventional heating, microwave heating, and vibration could affect the food safety of PE-coated paper.

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Investigation on mercury migration discipline in different paper‐plastic food packaging containers

Cited by 6 publications

References 30 publications

Assessment of Arsenic, Vanadium, Mercury, and Cadmium in Food and Drug Packaging

Assessment of Arsenic, Vanadium, Mercury, and Cadmium in Food and Drug Packaging

Assessment of heavy metals in food and drug packaging materials

Migration behavior of photoinitiators in polyethylene-coated paper for takeaway fast food

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