Plastics test method

 1. Compendium of Methods for Food Analysis, First Edition 2003, Department of Medical Sciences (DMSc) and National Bureau of Agricultural Commodity and Food Standards (ACFS).
 2. Specifications, Standards and Testing Methods for Foodstuffs, Implements, Containers and Packaging, Toys, Detergents 2008 http://www.jetro.go.jp/en/reports/regulations/pdf/testing2009dec-ep.pdf
 3. EN 1186- 1 to 15
  3.1 EN 1186-1:2002 Materials and articles in contact with foodstuffs - Plastics - Part 1: Guide to the selection of conditions and test methods for overall migration 
  3.2 EN 1186-2:2002 Materials and articles in contact with foodstuffs - Plastics - Part 2: Test methods for overall migration into olive oil by total immersion
  3.3 EN 1186-3:2002 Materials and articles in contact with foodstuffs - Plastics - Part 3: Test methods for overall migration into aqueous food simulants by total immersion
  3.4 EN 1186-4:2002 Materials and articles in contact with foodstuffs - Plastics - Part 4: Test methods for overall migration into olive oil by cell
  3.5 EN 1186-5:2002 Materials and articles in contact with foodstuffs - Plastics - Part 5: Test methods for overall migration into aqueous food simulants by cell
  3.6 EN 1186-6:2002 Materials and articles in contact with foodstuffs - Plastics - Part 6: Test methods for overall migration into olive oil using a pouch
  3.7 EN 1186-7:2002 Materials and articles in contact with foodstuffs - Plastics - Part 7: Test methods for overall migration into aqueous food simulants using a pouch
  3.8 EN 1186-8:2002 Materials and articles in contact with foodstuffs - Plastics - Part 8: Test methods for overall migration into olive oil by article filling
  3.9 EN 1186-9:2002 Materials and articles in contact with foodstuffs - Plastics - Part 9: Test methods for overall migration into aqueous food simulants by article filling
  3.10 EN 1186-10:2002 Materials and articles in contact with foodstuffs - Plastics - Part 10: Test methods for overall migration into olive oil (modified method for use in cases where incomplete extraction of olive oil occurs)
  3.11 EN 1186-11:2002 Materials and articles in contact with foodstuffs - Plastics - Part 11: Test methods for overall migration into mixtures of C-labelled synthetic triglycerides
  3.12 EN 1186-12:2002 Materials and articles in contact with foodstuffs - Plastics - Part 12: Test methods for overall migration at low temperatures
  3.13 EN 1186-13:2002 Materials and articles in contact with foodstuffs - Plastics - Part 13: Test methods for overall migration at high temperatures
  3.14 EN 1186-14:2002 Materials and articles in contact with foodstuffs - Plastics - Part 14: Test methods for 'substitute tests' for overall migration from plastics intended to come into contact with fatty foodstuffs using test media iso-octane and 95 % ethanol
  3.15 EN 1186-15:2002 Materials and articles in contact with foodstuffs - Plastics - Part 15: Alternative test methods to migration into fatty food simulants by rapid extraction into iso-octane and/or 95 % ethanol
 4. In-house method based on Compositional GC-FID analysis of the additives to PVC, focusing on the gaskets of lids for glass jars. Food Additives and Contaminants, December, 2005, vol.22, no.12, p.1274-1284.
 5. In-house method based on Determination of epoxidized soybean oil (ESBO) in oily foods by GC-FID or GC-MS analysis of the methyl diepoxy linoleate, Eur. Food Res. Technol., 2007, vol. 224, no. 309, p. 309-314.
 6. In-house method based on Injector-internal thermal desorption from edible oils performed by programmed temperature vaporizing (PTV) injection, J. Sep. Sci., 2006, vol. 29, p. 2365-2374.
 7. BS EN 15136:2006 Materials and articles in contact with foodstuffs. Certain epoxy derivatives subject to limitation. Determination of BADGE, BFDGE and their hydroxy and chlorinated derivatives in food simulants.
 8.  ASTM D 3985-05(2010)e1 Standard Test Method for Oxygen Gas Transmission Rate Through Plastic Film and Sheeting Using a Coulometric Sensor
 9.  TIS 656-2556 (2013): Methods of analysis for plastics products used for food contact.
 http://lib3.dss.go.th/fulltext/fcm/TIS656_2556.pdf [Online] (only available in Thai).