Gupta Rakesh Kumar, Pipliya Sunil, Karunanithi Sangeetha, Eswaran U Gnana Moorthy, Kumar Sitesh, Mandliya Shubham, Srivastav Prem Prakash, Suthar Tejas, Shaikh Ayaz Mukarram, Harsányi Endre, Kovács Béla
Agricultural and Food Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India.
Independent Researcher, Chicago, IL 60616, USA.
Foods. 2024 Sep 30;13(19):3125. doi: 10.3390/foods13193125.
The migration of chemical compounds from packaging polymers to food presents a multifaceted challenge with implications for food safety and public health. This review explores the interaction between packaging materials and food products, focusing on permeation, migration, and sorption processes. The different migration mechanisms of contact migration, gas phase migration, penetration migration, set-off migration, and condensation/distillation migration have been discussed comprehensively. The major migrating compounds are plasticizers, nanoparticles, antioxidants, light stabilizers, thermal stabilizers, monomers, oligomers, printing inks, and adhesives, posing potential health risks due to their association with endocrine disruption and carcinogenic effects. Advanced analytical methods help in the monitoring of migrated compounds, facilitating compliance with regulatory standards. Regulatory agencies enforce guidelines to limit migration, prompting the development of barrier coatings and safer packaging alternatives. Furthermore, there is a need to decipher the migration mechanism for mitigating it along with advancements in analytical techniques for monitoring the migration of compounds.
化学化合物从包装聚合物迁移到食品中是一个多方面的挑战，对食品安全和公众健康都有影响。本综述探讨了包装材料与食品之间的相互作用，重点关注渗透、迁移和吸附过程。已全面讨论了接触迁移、气相迁移、渗透迁移、转移迁移和冷凝/蒸馏迁移等不同的迁移机制。主要的迁移化合物有增塑剂、纳米颗粒、抗氧化剂、光稳定剂、热稳定剂、单体、低聚物、印刷油墨和粘合剂，由于它们与内分泌干扰和致癌作用有关，因而存在潜在的健康风险。先进的分析方法有助于监测迁移的化合物，促进符合监管标准。监管机构执行限制迁移的准则，促使人们开发阻隔涂层和更安全的包装替代品。此外，需要弄清楚迁移机制以减轻其影响，同时还要改进监测化合物迁移的分析技术。
