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Nonylphenol in food contact plastics and migration into foods

Project Code: A03057

02/06/2010

Food and Environment Research Agency, Sand Hutton, York YO41 1LZ
Bradley, E ;
TNO BIBRA International Ltd.
Leon, I;
Food and Environment Research Agency, Sand Hutton, York YO41 1LZ
Speck, D; Roberts, D

Nonylphenol (NP) is a generic term used to describe a complex commercial mixture of mainly nonyl-substituted phenol. The presence of NP in certain food contact materials has been reported. Although NP itself is not authorised for use in food contact plastics it may be present as an impurity or a breakdown product of alkylphenol ethoxylates or tris(nonylphenyl)phosphite. To confirm the presence of NP in food contact materials the Food Standards Agency commissioned a previous project (A03047) to develop a method of analysis for NP in different types of food packaging and the subsequent analysis of a range of material types. This new project aimed to provide between laboratory validation data for the method of analysis developed in the earlier FSA funded work and to derive information on the source of NP in foods, i.e. migration from food contact materials or from environmental contamination.

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