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.