Gesetzliche Anforderungen und Prüfmethoden bei Kartonverpackungen

Sources of off-odour and taint from the cardboard package are discussed. Legal regulations and sensory test methods are described. These relate to the chain from the production of cardboard via converting and printing to the cardboard package. As a result it is established that test methods accepted Europe-wide must be developed. The Tenax method could be a suitable test method for evaluating the total migration and also specific migrations in correlation to sensory analysis. Complex sensory problems should be solved individually by means of sensory and olfactometric methods.