Safety of Semi-volatile Organic Compounds in Plant Fiber/Melamine Food Contact Materials

SUN Renyue; ZHUANG Peihua; JIN Lili; ZOU Kai; WANG Rong; QIAN Jiangshan; SHAO Chenjie; KOU Haijuan; LUO Shipeng; LIU Guihua

doi:10.19554/j.cnki.1001-3563.2025.15.019

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Packaging Engineering ›› 2025, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (15) : 169-176. DOI: 10.19554/j.cnki.1001-3563.2025.15.019

Special Topic on Safety and Detection of Food Contact Materials

Safety of Semi-volatile Organic Compounds in Plant Fiber/Melamine Food Contact Materials

SUN Renyue¹, ZHUANG Peihua¹, JIN Lili¹, ZOU Kai¹, WANG Rong², QIAN Jiangshan², SHAO Chenjie¹, KOU Haijuan¹, LUO Shipeng^3*, LIU Guihua^2*

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The work aims to investigate safety risks of plant fiber/melamine composite food contact materials and provide a scientific basis for their production and use. The methods of gas chromatography-quadrupole-time-of-flight high-resolution mass spectrometry, combined with non-targeted screening technology and risk assessment, were used to carry out screening and analysis from the three dimensions of raw material type, food simulant type and migration pattern. Then, the possible sources and risks of semi-volatile organic compounds migrated from plant fiber/melamine composites were comprehensively investigated. 12 different semi-volatile migrating substances were screened from the plant fiber/melamine products, their sources were linked to the plant fibers, and their migration levels were below safety thresholds. Migration pattern studies demonstrated that the migration of semi-volatiles progressively increased with higher ethanol volume fractions in food simulants, whereas it decreased with an increasing number of migration cycles. Therefore, the migration of semi-volatile substances in plant fiber/melamine food contact materials pose a low risk to health.

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plant fiber/melamine materials / non-target screening / high-resolution mass spectrometry / risk assessment / migration patterns

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SUN Renyue, ZHUANG Peihua, JIN Lili, ZOU Kai, WANG Rong, QIAN Jiangshan, SHAO Chenjie, KOU Haijuan, LUO Shipeng, LIU Guihua. Safety of Semi-volatile Organic Compounds in Plant Fiber/Melamine Food Contact Materials[J]. Packaging Engineering. 2025, 46(15): 169-176 https://doi.org/10.19554/j.cnki.1001-3563.2025.15.019

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