Development of a harmonised method for specific migration into the new simulant for dry foods established in Regulation 10/2011:
Establishment of precision criteria from an EU interlaboratory comparison organized by the EURL- Food Contact Materials for the quantification from and migration into poly(2,6-diphenyl phenylene oxide)
This report presents the results of the EU Interlaboratoy comparison (ILC) of the EURL-FCM,towards validation criteria for the using the new simulant for specific migration into dry foods, poly(2,6-diphenyl phenylene oxide), PPPO. Regulation EU 10/2011 has established PPPO as new simulant for testing compliance of plastics in contact with foods. The enforceability of the Regulation required the validation of a method effectively to measure the quantifiaciton of a range of substances to use as models into PPPO as well as the validation of the migration test for long term storage which is typical for dry foods. This was accomplished under the work programme of the EURLwith 16 volunteer National Reference Laboratories (NRLs). The laboratories performance were successful with more than 8 valid results, even taking into account the complexity of the exercise. Considering the lack of the data previously available in the literature, this interlaboratory comparison exercise provided the first successful attempt to derive precision data at EU level for a specific migration experiment. It also represented a worst case and was very extensive with 3 levels of concentrations and 1 film, 5 substances, 4 replicates and 17 labs, i.e 1360 data points. This exercise consequently provided a great breadth of valuable detailed and traceable precision data, which could be used for a more refined validation of the method and proficiency test of official controls planned for 2013.
BELDI Giorgia;
JAKUBOWSKA Natalia;
PEYCHES BACH Aurelie;
SIMONEAU Catherine;
2013-01-15
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC77515
978-92-79-28078-8,
1831-9424,
EUR 25680 EN,
OP LB-NA-25680-EN-N,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC77515,
10.2788/76804,
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