OVERALL MIGRATION AND SPECIFIC MIGRATION OF BISPHENOL-A DIGLYCIDYL ETHER MONOMER AND M-XYLYLENEDIAMINE HARDENER FROM AN OPTIMIZED EPOXY-AMINE FORMULATION INTO WATER-BASED FOOD SIMULANTS
Js. Gandara et al., OVERALL MIGRATION AND SPECIFIC MIGRATION OF BISPHENOL-A DIGLYCIDYL ETHER MONOMER AND M-XYLYLENEDIAMINE HARDENER FROM AN OPTIMIZED EPOXY-AMINE FORMULATION INTO WATER-BASED FOOD SIMULANTS, Food additives and contaminants, 10(5), 1993, pp. 555-565
The overall and specific migrations of BADGE n = 0 monomer and m-XDA h
ardener from a BEPOX LAB 889 (Gairesa internal code), epoxy system cur
ed at room temperature, into three water-based food simulants are stud
ied. Hydrolysis of BADGE n = 0 was observed in all of these simulants,
giving more polar products. We thus propose changing the EEC Directiv
es, which at present only legislate for levels of BADGE n = 0 monomer
in the simulants, to include the hydrolysis products of BADGE monomers
. Another alternative would be to express all the migration levels due
to BADGE and its derived products in terms of BADGE itself.