Set-Off Test

Projectname:
Mass transport from packaging inks and other coating layers from the outside of packaging materials into Foods

Workgroup: Compliance of packaging material

Scientific Partners and Guidance:

  1. FABES Innovations GmbH, Dr. O. Piringer
  2. Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging, Dr. R. Franz

Financing: IVLV
Project Duration: 2009

The major mechanism responsible for the above mentioned migratory effects is the so-called set-off effect. This effect has been underestimated during the last decades and was recently negatively commemorated by the so-called ITX crisis.

The objective of this undertaking is (i) to establish a technical expert group consisting mainly of IVLV AG WVF members and (ii) to draft a proper AiF project proposal with the intention to work-out practical solutions to the above mentioned problems.

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