Determination of Nonylphenol migrated from Food-contact Plastics.

Role of plastics additives for food packaging

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the new trends in plastic additives, with special focus on developments in food packaging materials. Design/methodology/approach – Phenomenological research has brought awareness and increased insight into the role of various plastic additives on the packaging of foods. The approach is based on the current trends and the industrial protocols for ...

Nonylphenol: Properties, legislation, toxicity and determination.

This paper aims to gather and discuss important information about nonylphenol, such as physical chemistry properties, toxicity and analytical methods in various matrices. As a degradation product of ethoxylated alkylphenols, nonylphenol presents a higher degree of reactivity than its precursor. Due to its harmful effects on the environment, use and production of nonylphenol has been banned in E...

Color Changing Plastics for Food Packaging

Determination of bactericidal efficacy of essential oil extracted from orange peel on the food contact surfaces

Essential oil was extracted from peels of sweet orange fruits by supercritical technique and the resulting compounds were analyzed by gas chromatography. After emulsifying with tween-20 in sterile water, the antibacterial efficacy against Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Salmonella typhimurium, Escherichia coli, and Staphylococcus aureus, which were inoculated on the surfaces of samples of stainless st...

Contact constraint analysis and determination of geometrically valid contact formations from possible contact primitives

A complete, precise, and systematic analysis on the geometrical nature of contacts between two arbitrary polygons and derivation of the geometric contact constraints between two such polygons are provided. Based on the results, a general algorithm is presented to identify the geometrically valid contact formations (CFs) from a given set Spc of possible principal contacts (PCs) between two polyg...