Kh. Lund et al., A DANREF certified reference plastic for measurement of overall migration into the food simulant olive oil by single sided testing, FRESEN J AN, 367(8), 2000, pp. 742-747
A reference material for the determination of overall migration from a plas
tic coextrudate into the fatty food simulant olive oil was produced and cer
tified in an interlaboratory study. The analyses were carried out according
to the ENV 1186 standard from the European Committee for Standardization (
CEN) [1, 2, 3] with exposure of the coextrudate to olive oil for 10 days at
40 degrees C. After an initial preliminary interlaboratory study eight lab
oratories participated in the certification round, and two different method
s were used to obtain single sided exposure of the plastic to the oil. The
certified value was determined as the mean of laboratory mean values. No ou
tliers were found. A reference value of 8.6 mg/dm(2) +/- 1.4 mg/dm(2) (+/-
half width of the 95% confidence interval) was obtained which is within the
range relevant for the regulatory limit (10 mg/dm(2)), making this referen
ce material suitable for laboratories measuring according to the EU overall
migration limit [4]. The material has been found stable over 45 months.