Journal
FOOD ADDITIVES AND CONTAMINANTS PART A-CHEMISTRY ANALYSIS CONTROL EXPOSURE & RISK ASSESSMENT
Volume 30, Issue 11, Pages 1963-1975Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/19440049.2013.825818
Keywords
epoxidised soybean oil; ESBO; PVC gasket; migration
Funding
- MSMT [21/2012, 6046137305]
- Aktion Osterreich-Tschechien
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Epoxidised soybean oil (ESBO) is widely used as a plasticiser and stabiliser mainly in food contact materials on the base of polyvinylchloride (PVC), especially in the gaskets of jar lids. PVC gaskets containing 10-37% of ESBO were prepared by the baking of PVC plastisols at various process temperatures (180-240 degrees C) in the laboratory. ESBO migration into olive oil and 3% acetic acid was studied at various temperatures (4 degrees C, 25 degrees C, 40 degrees C and 60 degrees C) during a storage time up to 12months. ESBO released into food simulants was transmethylated, derivatised and analysed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS). The effect of food processing, i.e. pasteurisation (80 degrees C and 100 degrees C) and sterilisation (125 degrees C) on ESBO migration was also evaluated. The results were critically assessed with respect to the test conditions of specific migration in accordance with the current European Union legislation (Regulation (EU) No. 10/2011). The levels of ESBO migration found confirmed that the test conditions (i.e. 40 degrees C or 60 degrees C, 10days) representing contact in the worst foreseeable use scenario seem to be insufficient for the simulation of ESBO migration during long-term storage and thus do not provide satisfactory objective results.
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