Food Contact Materials: Migration and Analysis. Challenges and Limitations on Identification and Quantification

Molecules. 2021 May 27;26(11):3232. doi: 10.3390/molecules26113232.

Abstract

Food contact materials (FCM) are defined as the objects and materials intended to come into direct or indirect contact with foodstuff, while food contact articles are defined as objects, being equipment, containers, packaging and various utensils which are clearly intended to be used for the manufacture, preparation, conservation, flow, transport or handling of foodstuffs [...].

Publication types

  • Editorial
  • Introductory Journal Article

MeSH terms

  • Antioxidants / chemistry
  • Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
  • Food Contamination / analysis*
  • Food Packaging / instrumentation*
  • Food Packaging / trends*
  • Food Technology / methods*
  • Food*
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Plastics / chemistry*
  • Risk Assessment
  • Safety

Substances

  • Antioxidants
  • Plastics