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What are the standard (migration testing) conditions recommended by EU?

April 26, 2017Conditions EU migration recommended standard Testing

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What are the standard (migration testing) conditions recommended by EU?

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Issues with (experimental) migration testing conditions recommended by the EU Directives for compliance testing of plastic food contact materials must be answered case-by-case. That means that the petitioner must first know/define the real conditions (duration and temperature) under which the plastic food contact material is intended to be used in contact with a certain food. Based on this data the petitioner must then use the information and data banks given in the: EC Directive 97 / 48 / EC EEC Directive 85 / 572 / EEC to find out the corresponding food simulant, migration time, t ,and temperature, T , to be used in a migration experiment. For migration estimations using a user-friendly software, for example MigraPass™ developed by the FABES GmbH , the petitioner can use either the very same input data (recommended food simulant, migration time and temperature) as the ones derived for the migration experiment or the EU “worst case” contact conditions : 40°C during 10 days.