date:Jul 08, 2014
reason for this is international legislation clearly states which material properties are permissible and those substances which are not, requires stringent product testing and sets limits, eg, maximum permissible migration.
The fact of the matter today, however, is that maintaining a purely material focus largely ignores the needs of the market and absolutely fails to satisfy the current demands of the food industry. The guidelines of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and its European