Chemical Migration from Beverage Packaging Materials—A Review

New Trends in Beverage Packaging Systems: A Review

New trends in beverage packaging are focusing on the structure modification of packaging materials and the development of new active and/or intelligent systems, which can interact with the product or its environment, improving the conservation of beverages, such as wine, juice or beer, customer acceptability, and food security. In this paper, the main nutritional and organoleptic degradation pr...

Discovering Shifts and Trends in Beverage Packaging

Studies of Migration of Styrene Monomer from Polystyrene Packaging into the Food Simulant

Migration Assessment and Modeling from Poly Ethylene Terephthalate (PET) Packaging Containers into Soft Drinks

Background & objectives: Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) containers have many applications in the food industry. Although there are numerous advantages for PET it also has some disadvantages, one of which is the migration of materials from the container into the material inside. In this study, the effect of two factors of storage time and temperature on the migration rate was evaluated and mod...

Migration of Nonylphenols from Polymer Packaging Materials into Food Simulants

Votavová L., Dobiáš J., Voldřich M., Čížková H. (2009): Migration of nonylphenols from polymer packaging materials into food simulants. Czech J. Food Sci., 27: 293–299. p-Nonylphenol (NP) is widely used in many industrial applications (detergents, latex paints, pesticides, and plastics), and its presence in the environment has acquired an increasing concern since it was shown to be, besides its...