Food Packaging Scares


These continue to appear in the media periodically. Examples include phthalates in infant formula, migration of DIPN from paper and board, migration of ESBO from gaskets into baby food, azodicarbonamide decomposition to carcinogenic semicarbazide, ITX migration from UV-cured inks, antimony migration from PET, 4-methylbenzophenone migration from UV-cured printing inks and the on-going debates around the endocrine disrupting effects of DBP, DIBP, DEHP, ESBO, Bisphenol A and octyl- and nonylphenols.

When these break out you need level headed advice on what you should do by way of testing for these substances and what the toxicological implications are if they are present. Pira International can help with these issues.

Expert Profile

  • Nick spent 18 years as an analytical chemist with British Petroleum where he rose to become Manager of Elemental and Chemical Analysis. He joined Pira International in April 1996 as Business Manager of the Analytical Group and has since become UK Director responsible for all the chemical and physical testing of packaging, printing and paper.

    Nick Kernoghan
    Nick Kernoghan

    UK Director

    Pira International

    44-1372 802173

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