Migration from food packaging inks Issues & some solutions

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Joint Industry Task Force – PIJITF activities• Set up following ITX issue• Concern about possibility of a repeat• 4 WGs set up for different packaging types• Assessment of packaging, substrates, volumes,food types, consumption, etc to prioritise• Identification of worst case / highest potential• Commercial packaging samples from stores• Extensive analytical studies18
PIJITF activities – Flexible packaging WG• 100 samples of commercial food packaging• 65 different additives considered• Plasticisers all migrating below SML / limit• 2 highest migrating => revision of formulationguidelines & new maximum addition limit• All other additives migrating below 0.01 mg/kg• No exceedances of appropriate migration limitsNB considered to be highest risk samples19
Page 4 and 5: Legislation - Plastics• Plastics
Page 6 and 7: Legislation - Relevance of 1935/200
Page 8 and 9: Process - 1InkSubstrateFountPrintin
Page 11 and 12: Variables influencing migration fro
Page 13 and 14: Variables - Unexpected contaminatio
Page 15 and 16: Low Migration Printing - Best Pract
Page 17: Effect of Molecular WeightExtractab
Page 21 and 22: Ongoing issues• Petroleum distill
Page 23: Conclusions• Need greater respons

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