Food Contact Materials: Characterization of Migrants

Food contact materials (FCMs) may contain substances that can migrate into food. To help ensure consumers' safety, analysis of these substances (migrants) should be performed, including characterization of possible migrants in the FCMs, food, and/or food simulants. An introduction to the world of FCMs and analytical techniques used to analyze them will be briefly described in this chapter. The reader will become familiarized with FCMs and the science behind their analysis.