Alternative test methods to control the compliance of polyolefin food packaging materials with the European Union regulation

摘要

In order to decide whether a plastic food packaging material complies with the European Communities (EC) regulation on migration, a quick analysis of two functional classes of plastics additives (aromatic antioxidants and antistatic agents) from polyolefin materials by ~1H-NMR and UV-visible spectrophoto- metry is presented. The scope of spectroscopic methods for alternative and migration tests is presented , ~1H- NMR can be used in several ways, from a simple fingerprint of the potential migrants to an identification procedure.