Product Packaging Analysis: Safety, Durability and Performance Tests

Which Tests Should Product Packaging Materials Pass?

What is Packaging?

Packaging is responsible for protecting the product from environmental, physical and chemical factors in many processes such as post-production storage, transportation and presentation for all products, especially food products. Packaging materials can be obtained from many different raw materials such as paper, cardboard, metal, plastic, plastic, wood according to the type and characteristics of the product.

Packaging types should protect products from factors such as humidity, heat, and light. In order to determine the adequacy of the packaging used for the protection of products, it must undergo some testing and analysis processes.

In general, packaging tests are as follows:

Total Migration Test: It covers the determination of the migration of harmful substances into food, especially as a result of contact of plastic-based packaging materials with food, and comparison with the limits in the relevant regulations.
Extraction Analysis: It covers the processes of examining the interaction of additives in the structure of materials such as polyolefins and rubber with packaging and food and comparing them with the limits in the relevant regulations.
Volatile Matter Content Analysis: It covers the determination of the amount of volatile matter in packaging materials that come into contact with food, such as polystyrene-based packaging materials.
Paint Permeability Analysis: It covers the determination of the migration of dyestuffs used especially in plastic-based packaging materials to food.
Analysis of Resistance to Sudden Temperature Change: It covers the determination of the durability of glass packages against sudden temperature changes.
BPA Analysis: It covers the detection of Bisphenol - A specifically in polycarbonate-based packaging materials.
Determination of Epoxy Derivatives: It covers the detection of epoxy derivatives (BADGE.2H2O; BADGE.2HCl; BADGE.H2O.HCl; BADGE.H2O; BADGE.HCl; BADGE; BFDGE; NOGE) specifically in packaging materials.
Determination of Primary Aromatic Amine: Specific determination of primary aromatic amine (2,4,5-TMA; 4-M-m-PDA; 2,4-TDA; 2,4-DMA; 2,6-DMA; 2-M-5-MA; 2,6-TDA; 4,4'-MDA; 4,4'-MDoT; 4,4'-DPE; 4-ABP; 4-CoT; 4-CA; ANL; BNZ; m-PDA; o-ASD; 3,3'-DMB; o-T; p-PDA).
Heavy Metal Determination: It covers the detection of heavy metals (Aluminum (Al), Copper (Cu), Barium (Ba), Zinc (Zn), Iron (Fe), Cobalt (Co), Lithium (Li), Manganese (Mn), Nickel (Ni)) specifically in packaging materials.
Phthalate Determination: Specific phthalate ((Phthalic Acid, Dibutyl Ester (DBP); Phthalic Acid, Benzyl Butyl Ester (BBP); Phthalic Acid, Bis(2-Ethylhexyl) Ester (DEHP); (DIDP); DINP) detection in packaging materials.

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