Study of the migration of benzophenone from printed paperboard packages to cakes through different plastic films

Endocrine disrupting chemicals and other substances of concern in food contact materials: An updated review of exposure, effect and risk assessment

“…Benzophenone was found in the range of 232.7-580.9 mg/m 2 in freshly produced carton food packaging, while after one year levels were reduced by 50% [42]. In this study, suitable inner bag material was found to be multilayer plastic foils, while single layer polypropylene did not prevent migration of benzophenone into the foodstuff [42]. Migration has also been shown to be relevant for dry foods packaged in lowdensity polyethylene (LDPE) packaging, where triclosan was shown to leach into wheat flour and rice at low levels [43].…”

“…In 2009, a derivative of benzophenone, 4-methylbenzophenone was found in various European breakfast cereal samples packaged in paperboard at levels of up to 3.7 ppm in the food [41]. Benzophenone was found in the range of 232.7-580.9 mg/m 2 in freshly produced carton food packaging, while after one year levels were reduced by 50% [42]. In this study, suitable inner bag material was found to be multilayer plastic foils, while single layer polypropylene did not prevent migration of benzophenone into the foodstuff [42].…”

Report of ESCO WG on non‐plastic Food Contact Materials

“…The migration into food of other substances no related to UV inks, such as alkylbenzenes (Aurela et al2001) or bis(2-ethylhexyl) maleate has also been reported (Rutschmann et al 2010). With the aim of preventing or reducing the migration of substances from printed cardboard into food, the effect of different plastics as functional barriers has been studied (Johns et al, 2000;Pastorelli et al, 2008), and also new low migration off-set printing inks are being developed (Gude and Simat, 2009). …”

Measurement and modelling of migration from paper and board into foodstuffs and dry food simulants

“…Whereas in the last few years other diverse migration investigations with paper and board in contact with foods or food simulants were described (Anderson and Castle 2003;Song et al 2003;Jickells 2004;Sturaro et al 2006;Nerin et al 2007;Begley et al 2008;Pastorelli et al 2008), up to now only a few authors have reported on diffusion coefficients derived from kinetic migration investigations or partition coefficients for paper and board (Haack and Franz 2001;Aurela and Ketoja 2002;Triantafyllou et al 2005).…”