Safety assessment of food-contact paper and board using a battery of short-term toxicity tests: European union BIOSAFEPAPER project.

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Safety assessment of food-contact paper and board using a battery of short-term toxicity tests: European union BIOSAFEPAPER project.

I. Severin L. Dahbi J. -C. Lhuguenot M. A. Andersson D. Hoornstra M. Salkinoja-salonen L. Turco F. Zucco A. Stammati O. Dahlman L. Castle M. Savolainen A. Weber U. Honkalampi-hamalainen A. Von Wright

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Standardization Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Toxicology Mice 0302 clinical medicine Environmental protection Short term toxicity Cells Cultured media_common Mammals 0303 health sciences Food Packaging Risk analysis (engineering)extraction procedures Chemistry (miscellaneous)030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Safety Paper Battery (electricity)Cells Food Contamination [SDV.TOX.TCA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Toxicology/Toxicology and food chain Models Biological Risk Assessment Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry 03 medical and health sciences Cell Line Tumor Toxicity Tests Animals Humans media_common.cataloged_instance Dimethyl Sulfoxide paper and board European Union European union 030304 developmental biology Ethanol Food contact Mutagenicity Tests business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Product testing Water Environmental Exposure General Chemistry Consumer protection Food safety Cytotoxicity assays Business Food Analysis Food Science

description

International audience; An European Union (EU)-funded project QLK1-CT-2001-00930 (BIOSAFEPAPER) involves the development, validation and intercalibration of a short-term battery of toxicological tests for the safety assessment of food-contact paper and board. Dissemination of the results to industry, legislators (e.g. DG Consumer Protection, DG Enterprises, DG Research), standardization bodies such as CEN, and consumers will create an agreed risk evaluation procedure. The project involves pre-normative research in order to establish a set of in-vitro cytotoxicity and genotoxicity tests that will be easily adaptable to food-contact fibre-based materials and have endpoints relevant to consumer safety, including sub-lethal cellular events. These tests will be performed on samples representing actual migration conditions from food-contact paper and board with respect to different foodstuffs, and should form an experimental basis for scientifically sound recommendations for a harmonized system of risk evaluation and product testing.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2005-10-01

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