Migration Test: Safety and Quality Analysis in Food Packaging

What is migration? Which products should it be done on? Which tests does it cover?

What is Packaging?

Packaging is the materials used to protect, transport, store and present products to the consumer. Packaging not only protects the physical properties of the product, but also plays an important role in providing information about the product and attracting consumer attention. Packaging is used in food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, electronics and many other sectors.

With the growth of the ready-to-eat food sector in recent years, packaging materials used in food preservation have also gained importance. The packaging materials used should not contain toxic substances such as heavy metals, phthalates and BPA.

Migration test is one of the most important analyzes to determine the harm of packaging materials for human health.

What is Migration? What is Migration Test?

Migration test; It is an analysis performed on packaging, kitchen materials and food production machines that come into contact with food, which enables the determination of the migration of substances that pose a toxicological risk in their structure to food.

What Factors Affect Migration Tests?

Structure of food
Contact time
Contact temperature
The structure of the packaging and the amount of material used in its content

Migration testing laboratories test packaging materials in accordance with appropriate standards and methods, taking into account all these factors.

Migration tests are performed as total migration and specific migration.

Total migration is expressed as the sum of all substances that can migrate from food contact materials to food.

Food simulations used in total migration tests are as follows.

Food-Like A	Aqueous Food, 10% Ethyl Alcohol
Food-Like B	Acid Food, 3% Acetic Acid
Food-Like C	Alcoholic Food, 20% Ethyl Alcohol
Food-Like D1	Fatty Food, 50% Ethyl Alcohol
Food-Like D2	Fatty Food, Vegetable Oil
Food-Like D2	Replaced 95% Ethyl Alcohol
Food-Like D2	Replaces Isooctane
Food-Like E	Dry Food, Tenax

Specific migration is based on toxicological studies applied to a specific substance in food simulations.

Analyses performed within the scope of specific migration analyses;

Heavy Metal Determination

Bisphenol A (BPA) Determination

Determination of Epoxy and Its Derivatives

Determination of Phthalate

Determination of Primary Aromatic Amine

Migration analysis is an important and mandatory quality criterion in the packaging industry. Packaging materials that appeal to our eyes on the market shelves, whose main task is to protect the food product, should not contain heavy metals and toxic substances that threaten human health.

Nano-lab Laboratories Group continues to provide services within the scope of Migration Testing in Packaging . We also provide services in Paper and Cardboard Analysis.

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