Investigations into the Migration of Packaging Components into Food

In recent years, concern has arisen about the potential for compounds in food packaging, such as bisphenyl A (BPA), to migrate into food. Rafael Paseiro-Cerrato of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has conducted studies to investigate this concern. Specifically, those studies have addressed various types of can coatings in both short-term and long-term studies, as well as the question of whether short-term study protocols accurately simulate migration during longer-term storage. He used a range of analytical techniques, including gas chromatography (GC), high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), and ultrahigh pressure liquid chromatography (UHPLC) combined with a diode array detector (DAD), charged aerosol detection (CAD), mass spectrometry (MS), and high-resolution MS (HRMS). He also investigated direct analysis in real time-MS (DART MS). Here, he talks to us about that work.