2018 - 2021
BioPlastic – bioPEU - Manufacture of biodegradable yarn material for medical application - Estimation of permeation of additives from the yarn through human skin
Sponsor: Federal Ministry for Economics and Energy
Sponsor:
2015 - 2018
Bone adhesive based on biopolymer
Sponsor: Federal Ministry for Economics and Energy
2015 - 2017
"PIM and Oligomers" – Better evaluation of the exposure of the Bavarian population by plastic materials
Sponsor: Bavarian Ministry for Economics / Forschungsgemeinschaft für Verpackungs- und Lebensmitteltechnik e. V. (FoGe)
2014 - 2016
"New Simulants" – Better evaluation of the exposure of the Bavarian population by special food contact materials
Sponsor: Bavarian Ministry for Economics / Forschungsgemeinschaft für Verpackungs- und Lebensmitteltechnik e. V. (FoGe)
2013 - 2015
"Hydrolysis" – Evaluation of the exposure of the Bavarian population by ester compounds from food contact materials
Sponsor: Bavarian Ministry for Economics / Forschungsgemeinschaft für Verpackungs- und Lebensmitteltechnik e. V. (FoGe)
2012 - 2014
FABES Innovation: Development of a cost efficient test and evaluation approach of mass transport from UV-printing inks and UV-outside lacquers of food contact packaging materials
Sponsor: AiF
2012 - 2013
FABES Innovation: Development of a quality assurance system for the manufacture of mineral oil free food packaging materials
Sponsor: AiF
2012 - 2013
FABES Innovation: Quality assurance of multilayer packaging materials by modeling of the migration into foods
Sponsor: Forschungsgemeinschaft für Verpackungs- und Lebensmitteltechnik e. V. (FoGe)
2012
FABES Innovation: EU legal harmonisation
Sponsor: Forschungsgemeinschaft für Verpackungs- und Lebensmitteltechnik e. V. (FoGe)
2011 - 2013
Minimisation of the exposition of the Bavarian population by mineral oil components and other waste paper components from food contact materials
Sponsor: Bavarian Ministry for Economics / Forschungsgemeinschaft für Verpackungs- und Lebensmitteltechnik e. V. (FoGe)
2011 - 2012
"Rapid set-off method" – Rapid photometrical test concerning the degree of curing
Sponsor: Industrievereinigung für Lebensmitteltechnologie und Verpackung e.V. (IVLV)
2011
EU legal harmonisation
Sponsor: Industrievereinigung für Lebensmitteltechnologie und Verpackung e.V. (IVLV)
2010
EU legal harmonisation
Sponsor: Industrievereinigung für Lebensmitteltechnologie und Verpackung e.V. (IVLV)
2009 - 2011
"Cheese and meat" – Estimation of the exposition of the Bavarian consumer by components of packaging materials, which were in contact with cheese or meat
Sponsor: Bavarian Ministry for Economics / Forschungsgemeinschaft für Verpackungs- und Lebensmitteltechnik e. V. (FoGe)
2009
EU legal harmonisation
Sponsor: Industrievereinigung für Lebensmitteltechnologie und Verpackung e.V. (IVLV)
2008 - 2012
"FACET" – Flavourings, Additives and food Contact materials Exposure
Sponsor: EU
The FACET project was developed in response to a call by the European Commission to produce a risk management tool consisting of a database containing information on the levels of food additives, flavourings and food packaging migrants and corresponding food consumption data. The main reasons that such a tool is required in the EU can be summarized as follows: 1. Efforts to monitor exposure to food chemical intake tend to be orientated toward specific groups of chemicals and to date, no concerted effort has been made in the EU to combine exposure estimates for several chemicals into one project. 2. In the past, individual projects estimating food chemical exposure have had a finite objective in providing an exposure estimate at a defined point in time. The present study will certainly do that but it is also intended that the surveillance system developed in the present project will be capable of being both sustained and developedfor use by EU regulatory authorities. With regards to the main areas separately, FACET will extend the current state-of-the-art as follows: : food additives, flavourings, food packaging migrants, food chemical occurrence, food chemical concentration data, food intake data, regional modelling, food chemical exposure models.
The FACET project was developed in response to a call by the European Commission to produce a risk management tool consisting of a database containing information on the levels of food additives, flavourings and food packaging migrants and corresponding food consumption data. The main reasons that such a tool is required in the EU can be summarized as follows: 1. Efforts to monitor exposure to food chemical intake tend to be orientated toward specific groups of chemicals and to date, no concerted effort has been made in the EU to combine exposure estimates for several chemicals into one project. 2. In the past, individual projects estimating food chemical exposure have had a finite objective in providing an exposure estimate at a defined point in time. The present study will certainly do that but it is also intended that the surveillance system developed in the present project will be capable of being both sustained and developedfor use by EU regulatory authorities. With regards to the main areas separately, FACET will extend the current state-of-the-art as follows: : food additives, flavourings, food packaging migrants, food chemical occurrence, food chemical concentration data, food intake data, regional modelling, food chemical exposure models.
2007 - 2010
EU legal harmonisation
Sponsor: Industrievereinigung für Lebensmitteltechnologie und Verpackung e.V. (IVLV)
2007 - 2010
"Migressives" – Migration from Adhesives in food packaging materials in support of European Legislation and standardisation
Sponsor: EU
Most food packages and food contact materials (FCMs) are manufactured using adhesives. The EU regulates FCMs, as their constituents may contaminate food and endanger consumer’s health. In contrary to plastics which are regulated by positive lists of authorised ingredients, adhesives have not yet a specific regulation. When using this approach also for adhesives, hundreds of raw materials would be out of scope, as they lack the standard information required by the risk assessment agencies. This would pose high cost burdens for toxicity tests to adhesives industry which is dominated by SMEs and to all SMEs from the added value chain.
Most food packages and food contact materials (FCMs) are manufactured using adhesives. The EU regulates FCMs, as their constituents may contaminate food and endanger consumer’s health. In contrary to plastics which are regulated by positive lists of authorised ingredients, adhesives have not yet a specific regulation. When using this approach also for adhesives, hundreds of raw materials would be out of scope, as they lack the standard information required by the risk assessment agencies. This would pose high cost burdens for toxicity tests to adhesives industry which is dominated by SMEs and to all SMEs from the added value chain.
The project elaborates a scientific global risk assessment approach
- to meet current general EU regulatory requirements and
- to serve as a basis for future specific EU legislation and
- to provide SME industry a tool to ensure that adhesives do not endanger consumer health. The idea is to demonstrate that consumer’s exposure to chemicals released by adhesives is in many cases below levels of concern.
2007 - 2009
Guideline for determination of conformity of printed food packaging materials – usage of migration kinetics
Sponsor:
2007
EU legal harmonisation
Sponsor: Industrievereinigung für Lebensmitteltechnologie und Verpackung e.V. (IVLV)
2006 - 2007
"PET exposition" – Feasibility study of a new assessment procedure with focus on migrant exposure exemplified on PET beverage bottles
Sponsor: Bavarian Ministry for Economics / Forschungsgemeinschaft für Verpackungs- und Lebensmitteltechnik e. V. (FoGe)
2004 - 2005
Determination and estimation of partition coefficients of migrants between diverse packaging materials and contact media
Sponsor: Industrievereinigung für Lebensmitteltechnologie und Verpackung e.V. (IVLV)
2004
Migration behaviour of POM
Sponsor: Verband Kunststofferzeugende Industrie e.V. (VKE)
2003 - 2005
"Foodmigrosure" – Modelling Migration from Plastics into Foodstuffs as a Novel and Cost Efficient Tool for Estimation of Consumer Exposure from Food Contact Materials
Sponsor: EU
The main objective of the European research project FOODMIGROSURE was to provide a novel and economic tool for estimation of consumer exposure to chemicals migrating from food contact materials. The tool is based on a physico-chemical migration model that describes mathematically the migration processes from plastics into actual foodstuffs under any foreseeable contact conditions.
The main objective of the European research project FOODMIGROSURE was to provide a novel and economic tool for estimation of consumer exposure to chemicals migrating from food contact materials. The tool is based on a physico-chemical migration model that describes mathematically the migration processes from plastics into actual foodstuffs under any foreseeable contact conditions.
2003 - 2004
Migration of antimony from PET into food simulants
Sponsor: Verband Kunststofferzeugende Industrie e.V. (VKE)
2001 - 2003
Migration investigation on aluminium laminates
Sponsor: European Aluminium Foil Association – EAFA
Overal aim of the project is to create a complete scientific database of fundamental physicalconstants to enable aluminium laminate producers to us migration modelling for compliancetesting of all types of packaging made out of aluminium laminates. In detail the aims of theproject are:
1. Complete the experimental determination of the fundamental constants needed forcompliance testing by migration modelling of aluminium laminates studied in part I withrespect to more suitable food simulants.
2. Experimental determination of the fundamental constants of new laminate types notcovered by experiment until now for example extrusion coated laminates or paper laminatedto aluminium by wax but not limited to these.
3. Improvement and adaptation of the migration modelling procedure to the specificneeds of the producers of aluminium laminates.
Overal aim of the project is to create a complete scientific database of fundamental physicalconstants to enable aluminium laminate producers to us migration modelling for compliancetesting of all types of packaging made out of aluminium laminates. In detail the aims of theproject are:
1. Complete the experimental determination of the fundamental constants needed forcompliance testing by migration modelling of aluminium laminates studied in part I withrespect to more suitable food simulants.
2. Experimental determination of the fundamental constants of new laminate types notcovered by experiment until now for example extrusion coated laminates or paper laminatedto aluminium by wax but not limited to these.
3. Improvement and adaptation of the migration modelling procedure to the specificneeds of the producers of aluminium laminates.
2000
Migration of organotin compounds from PVC flooring
Sponsor: Verband Kunststofferzeugende Industrie e.V. (VKE)
2001 - 2003
Testing and evaluation of mass transports between thin layers of packaging materials and food simulants for reasons of quality assurance
Sponsor: AiF