New hierarchical classification of food items for the assessment of exposure to packaging migrants: use of hub codes for different food groups

Northing, Phil; Oldring, P. K. T.; Castle, Laurence; Mason, Philip Alexander Sebastian Stansfield

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“…The food consumption data were supplied by the database managers for the countries involved in FACET. For the refined deterministic approach at verifying the FACET results, the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) survey for 19–64 year olds ( Henderson et al 2002 ) was used as the data were readily available from previous work ( Holmes et al 2005 ; Castle et al 2006 ; Oldring et al 2006 ; Northing et al 2009 ). Data on the type of packaging for different foodstuffs were obtained from Euromonitor data for 2005 as well as information on the surface area to packed food weight of the packaging.…”

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Estimates of dietary exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) from light metal packaging using food consumption and packaging usage data: a refined deterministic approach and a fully probabilistic (FACET) approach

Oldring¹,

Castle

O’Mahony

et al. 2014

Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A

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The FACET tool is a probabilistic model to estimate exposure to chemicals in foodstuffs, originating from flavours, additives and food contact materials. This paper demonstrates the use of the FACET tool to estimate exposure to BPA (bisphenol A) from light metal packaging. For exposure to migrants from food packaging, FACET uses industry-supplied data on the occurrence of substances in the packaging, their concentrations and construction of the packaging, which were combined with data from a market research organisation and food consumption data supplied by national database managers. To illustrate the principles, UK packaging data were used together with consumption data from the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) dietary survey for 19–64 year olds for a refined deterministic verification. The UK data were chosen mainly because the consumption surveys are detailed, data for UK packaging at a detailed level were available and, arguably, the UK population is composed of high consumers of packaged foodstuffs. Exposures were run for each food category that could give rise to BPA from light metal packaging. Consumer loyalty to a particular type of packaging, commonly referred to as packaging loyalty, was set. The BPA extraction levels used for the 15 types of coating chemistries that could release BPA were in the range of 0.00005–0.012 mg dm−2. The estimates of exposure to BPA using FACET for the total diet were 0.0098 (mean) and 0.0466 (97.5th percentile) mg/person/day, corresponding to 0.00013 (mean) and 0.00059 (97.5th percentile) mg kg−1 body weight day−1 for consumers of foods packed in light metal packaging. This is well below the current EFSA (and other recognised bodies) TDI of 0.05 mg kg−1 body weight day. These probabilistic estimates were compared with estimates using a refined deterministic approach drawing on the same input data. The results from FACET for the mean, 95th and 97.5th percentile exposures to BPA lay between the lowest and the highest estimates from the refined deterministic calculations. Since this should be the case, for a fully probabilistic compared with a deterministic approach, it is concluded that the FACET tool has been verified in this example. A recent EFSA draft opinion on exposure to BPA from different sources showed that canned foods were a major contributor and compared results from various models, including those from FACET. The results from FACET were overall conservative.

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Estimates of dietary exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) from light metal packaging using food consumption and packaging usage data: a refined deterministic approach and a fully probabilistic (FACET) approach

Oldring¹,

Castle

O’Mahony

et al. 2014

Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A

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“…Probabilistic approaches have been applied for coupling exposure assessment (Holmes et al, 2005) and migration modelling (Poças et al, 2010). According to a probabilistic study, changes in eating habits over time have a smaller impact on dietary exposure to migrants than changes in packaging usage, packaging composition and migration levels (Northing et al, 2009). Glass and plain (uncoated) metal are not included in the scope of this working group.…”

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Report of ESCO WG on non‐plastic Food Contact Materials

2011

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Characterization of patterns of food packaging usage in Portuguese homes

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Oliveira

Pinto

et al. 2009

Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A

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This study aimed to permit further refinements in exposure assessments for migrants from food-contact materials by contributing to the characterization, at the household level, of the food packaging usage (amount and type) of Portuguese urban families. Packages from domestic use were collected from a sample of 105 consumers from 34 households over a 30 day period. Collected packages (more than 6 000 items) were characterized in the laboratory and data were used to estimate: (i) global packaging usage and food intake; (ii) the consumption factors (CF) that describe the fraction of the daily diet expected to contact specific packaging materials and (iii) the food-type factors (FTF) that reflect the fraction of all food contacting each material that is different in nature according to 6 major types: aqueous, acidic, alcoholic, milky, fatty and dry. The daily intake of packaged food and beverages consumed at home ranged from 5 to 50 g/kg bw. Considering all materials, total package usage ranged from 0.1 to 0.6 dm 2 /day.kg bw. The ratio between package surface area in contact and the quantity of food was determined for all packaging items collected and an average value of 25 dm 2 /kg food was recorded. Data were gathered and presented in a manner compatible with current probabilistic approaches to exposure assessment. In this way, relevant

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New hierarchical classification of food items for the assessment of exposure to packaging migrants: use of hub codes for different food groups

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Estimates of dietary exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) from light metal packaging using food consumption and packaging usage data: a refined deterministic approach and a fully probabilistic (FACET) approach

Estimates of dietary exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) from light metal packaging using food consumption and packaging usage data: a refined deterministic approach and a fully probabilistic (FACET) approach

Report of ESCO WG on non‐plastic Food Contact Materials

Characterization of patterns of food packaging usage in Portuguese homes

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