Dietary exposure to a range of chemicals that can migrate from packaging into food is low and poses no risk to human health, according to research from government food safety experts in Australasia.

Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) commissioned a series of tests to assess the levels at which chemicals such as phthalates, perfluorinated compounds (PCFs), epoxidised soybean oil (ESBO), semicarbazide, acrylonitrile and vinyl chloride migrate from packaging into foodstuffs.

 

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