Plastics are now being used on a large scale for the packaging of fatty & aqueous foodstuffs & beverages, both alcoholic & non-alcoholic. Contact between plastics packaged commodities also occurs in the products of the pharmaceutical & cosmetics industries & similar considerations apply to these where direct contact occurs between the packed commodity & the container which is likely that some transfer will occur of polymer additives, adventitious impurities such as monomers, oligomers, catalyst remnants & residual polymerization solvents & low molecular weight polymer fractions from the plastic into the packaged material with the consequent risk of toxic hazard to the consumer. This book will be of interest to those engaged in the implementation of packaging legislation, analytical chemists & manufacturers of foods, beverages, pharmaceuticals & cosmetics and also scientific and toxicologists in the packaging industry.
