Researchers find no migration of nanoscale pigment particles from ink layers of printed food packaging into food

The German Paint and Printing Ink Association VdL commissioned a study investigating the migration of nanoscale pigment particles from printing ink layers of printed food packaging into food. Following the wide range of analytical methods used in this study, no migration of nanoscale pigment particles could be detected from ink layers of printed food packaging into food.
Therefore exposure of consumers to nanoparticles from the dried and cured ink layers may be excluded. A German article about the research was published in the Lebensmittel-Rundschau in April 2013. Recently an English version of the article was published (website European Printing Ink Association EuPIA).
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