Posters from the 3rd International Symposium on Food Packaging

Click the links below to access the posters from the Symposium.  The documents are in PDF, Power Point, and JPG format.

Session 1: Exposure assessment

• Metabolism of Bisphenol f in the Wistar female rat after oral administration
• Semicarbazide contamination in foodstuff
• Development of a food packaging database to allow calculation of food packaging usage factors
• Comparison of cytotoxicity assays in order to ensure safety of food contact materials
• Exposure assessment and risk characterization of certain fluoroorganic chemicals used in food packaging
• Survey of suspected endocrine disruptor compounds in food packaging materials
• Model of the interaction between product and packaging during lactic acid cheese refrigeration storage
• A quantitative methodology to estimate the risk of contamination of food products and consumer exposure at household scale

Session 2: Innovations in food packaging

• Study and development of an equilibrium modified atmosphere packaging system for wild strawberries
• Surface functionalization of polypropylene by radiation grafting
• Quality degradation in a semi-preserved tomato sauce as affected by packaging
• Active packaging for prolonging ascorbic acid retention in a beverage-like system
• Soy protein bio-polymer coatings on LDPE films delay blooming of red meat
• Development of active films for naringin reduction in fruit juices
• Chitosan as a potential polymer for antimicrobial packaging
• Stabilization of reactive aroma compounds through sorption – release by packaging polymers
• Development and optimisation of iron-based oxygen absorbing systems used in food packaging and preservation
• Enhancement and indication of food quality by combinations of oxygen scavenger and indicator systems
• White and red wine packaging in small PET bottles
• Electrochemical testing of lacquers to support the development of polyester coatings substituting epoxyphenolic lacquers in food packages
• A safety metal closure free of PVC, phthalates, BADGE & NOGE, bisphenol A, and Semicarbazide
• New melt compounded copolyamide nanocomposites for packaging application
• Food compatibility of artificial casings: the Delicatessen’s Primary Food Packaging
• Improved methods for global compliance with regulations on the safety of food contact materials
• First step to a development of a new commercial antimicrobial film
• Determination of antioxidant components in a new active package
• Cubed mozzarella cheese in modified atmosphere packages: evolutive profiles of chemical and microbiogical parameters during shelf life
• A multivariate approach to the study of aroma and polymers interactions
• Germinated grains in wheat bread technology
• Novel preservation techniques and packaging safety
• Anti-microbial polymer films for food packaging
• Investigations on the wheat dough preservation facilities and their impact on bread quality
• Intelligent packaging – attitudes and expectations of retailers
• Influence of different light trasmissible materials on stability of food components in model systems
• Comparison of some properties of traditional and new polymers used for fermented food packaging
• Plasma treated plasticized pvc cling film: effects on the functional properties and influence on DEHA migration into food
• The combined effects of low oxygen partial pressures, carbon dioxide and ethanol vapours on the preservation of perishable foods
• A MALDI-Tof study on the proteinic fraction of different packaged milk samples

Session 3: Re-use of packaging materials - Environmental aspects

• Influence of processing parameters on chemical-physical properties of zein-based films intended for food packaging applications
• Use of oscillatory test to study chitosan film intended for food packaging applications
• Promotion of recyclable and biodegradable packaging in Latvia
• Dynamic – mechanic analysis (DMA) in the assessment of recycled plastics
• Developing of starch based rigid wally biodegradable food packaging by using natural components
• Polymerized Gliadins from wheat gluten as food packaging biomaterials
• Residual chemicals in recycled polyethylene terephthalate in Japan
• Polylactide (PLA) as food contact material: migrational, mechanical and technological performances
• Recycled polypropylene in contact with solid foodstuffs
• Development and evaluation of an edible antimicrobial film based on yam starch and chitosan
• Estimation of the role of different humidities applied for sensory testing of paper and board intended for food contact and its legislatory impact
• Investigations on estrogenic compounds and other contaminants in recycled fibre materials intended for the production of food packaging materials

Session 4: Packaging migration

• Safety of fibre-based food packaging – Role of printing ink
• Diffusion of limonene in polyethylenes as a function polymer processing
• Investigation of chemical migration into snack and take-away foods
• Analysis of monomers in packaging materials and foodstuffs to test for compliance with QM and SML restrictions
• Quantification of contamination in food packaging
• Semicarbazide from foamed polymers intended for food contact
• A semi-automated procedure for sample clean-up and determination of BADGE and BFDGE in canned foodstuffs
• Stability study of phenolic and phosphite antioxidants in food aqueous simulants A, B AND C
• Absorption of aroma compounds by PET and PVC during the preservation of a strawberry syrup
• Rapid and convenient testing protocol to evaluate and ensure conformity of isocyanate containing laminates
• Determination of MBT and BT migration from packaging materials by LC-MS/MS
• Investigation and evaluation of mass transport processes between thin packaging layers and into foodstuffs for quality assurance and technological optimisation of plastics based multilayer packaging applications
• Measuring transport and partitioning processes of model migrants into and within foodstuffs
• Crosslinking polyethylene in contact with warm water: a new system to monitor manufacturing quality for European 1+ level certification
• Gamma radiation of yellow and blue colorants added to polystyrene food packaging
• Migration of Styrene Monomer, Dimers and Trimers from General Purpose Polystyrene to Food Simulants
• Development of pressure and heat resistant migration cells and validation of overall migration values obtained
• Determination of overall migration from polyethylene and polypropylene films into olive oil with HPLC – light scattering detection
• Residual printing solvents in synthetic packaging materials
• Primary aromatic amines (PAA) in laminates – preliminary results of testing the polish market
• Bioassay guided analysis of migrants from can coatings
• Determination of formaldehyde, acetaldehyde and oligomers in polyethylene terephthalate products and bottled water
• Migration into food prevails migration into simulants: by the example of PVC cling films in contact with fatty food
• Levels of chlorohydrins from epoxidised soybean oil in various baby foods
• The Swedish Polish EUREKA Project E!2603 – CANBA “Safe metal packaging foodstuffs”
• Research on potential migration from ion-exchange resins used in contact with food
• Migration of cyclic oligoesters from food packagings
• Rapid method for halogenated phenols analysis in wood palettes
• Migration from plastic materials onto dry powdery foods
• Migration from kitchen- and tableware
• Experimental and theoretical estimation of solubility and diffusion coefficients of organic solvents in high-density polyethylene
• Study on the migration behaviour of DEHP versus an alternative plasticiser, Hexamoll® DINCH, from PVC tubes into enteral feeding solutions
• Identification and quantification of migrating phenolic substances < 1000 Da from can coatings
• Migration modelling from multi-layer packaging into foodstuffs and food simulating media

Session 6: European Commission funded projects

• Calibration methods for sensory testing of food contact materials – paper and board
• Kinetic studies on the migration of caprolactam from nylon-6 into foodstuffs
• Modelling migration from food contact materials into real foodstuffs
• Kinetic migration studies from plastic films into foodstuffs
• Selection of polymeric reference test films and model migrants to study the physico-chemical parameters influencing mass transport of packaging constituents into and within foodstuffs
• Method for the analysis of Triacetin migration in Food
• Compilation of analytical methods to determine migration kinetics of selected additives/monomers in plastics to foodstuffs
• State of the art of analytical strategies to evaluate transport & partition processes of selected migrants in foodstuffs
• Migration kinetics of Irganox 1076 in relevant foods for refined exposure assessment
• Interaction of active packaging ingredient with food matrices: case study of with coffee aroma compounds using a comparison of techniques
• Exposure assessment of epoxidised soybean oil for infants
• Analysis of benzophenone and diphenylphthalate as migrating substances from plastic food packaging materials into representative foodstuffs
• Specific migration testing - a comparison of experimental data and values calculated from a migration model
• Development of Certified Reference Materials for the specific migration testing of plastics for food packaging
• Comparison of cytotoxicity assays on different cell lines to assess safety of packaging materials