Issue |
MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 281, 2019
International Conference of Engineering Risk (INCER 2019)
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Article Number | 06001 | |
Number of page(s) | 7 | |
Section | Chemical: Pollution, Explosion, Fire | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201928106001 | |
Published online | 21 May 2019 |
Physicochemical Properties of Chemical Pollutants Available in Food Contact Materials (FCM)
1 Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Faculty of Sciences, Dept. Chemistry Biochemistry, Group ThEA-Thermodynamic Phase Equilibria and Analysis, B. P. 446 Jounieh, Lebanon
2 Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, Laboratoire des Multimatériaux et Interfaces, UMR 5615, F-69622 Lyon, France
3 Lebanese University, Faculty of Sciences, Dept. Chemistry Biochemistry, Group ASP-Multiphases Systems Analysis, Fanar, Beirut, Lebanon
* Corresponding author: josephsaab@usek.edu.lb
Health and welfare of population are priority reasons to study the toxic effects of chemical pollutants. These effects can directly produce deterioration of health or can cause less healthful environment toxicity and restricting food production. Thereby, preventing such a consequence is important for human health risk assessment. In recent times, the use of recycled materials for packaging has undeniably been intensified. Nevertheless, recycling systems could not effectively eliminate the potential effect of chemical pollutants (alkyl phenol, phthalates, aldehydes, etc.) existent in such packages. The migration process and/or the ability of these pollutants to be absorbed into the recycled material, subsequently released by the packaging material, and then trapped by the matrices they contain, has become a potential source of exposure to consumers. This process is controlled by the nature of the packaging, time, temperature, and the physicochemical properties of the contaminant. The literature suffers from a lack of data related to the physicochemical (aqueous solubility, vapor pressure, Henry’s constant, etc...) of these contaminants. In this work, we are going to describe the experimental devices used for aqueous solubility, vapor pressure and octanol/water partition coefficient determination.
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