EN 13130-3 Materials and Objects in Contact with Foodstuffs - Restricted Plastics - Part 3: Test for Determination of Acrylonitrile in Food and Food Simulants

EUROLAB, with its state-of-the-art accredited laboratories and expert team, provides precise and fast testing services within the scope of EN 13130-3 testing. This part of this European standard covers a method for the determination of acrylonitrile monomer in foods and food simulants.

The method is applicable to aqueous food simulants, oily food simulant olive oil and other fatty food simulants, D-like substances, for example a mixture of synthetic triglycerides or sunflower oil or corn oil, as well as liquid and solid foodstuffs such as beverages. The determined level of acrylonitrile monomer is expressed as milligrams of acrylonitrile per kilogram of food or food simulant.

The method is suitable for the quantitative determination of acrylonitrile monomer at minimum levels of 0,01 mg/kg to 0,005 mg/kg or less in food simulant, depending on the test conditions applied.

The level of acrylonitrile (AN) in a food or food simulant is determined by headspace gas chromatography with automated sample injection using nitrogen-specific sensing. Quantification is performed using propionitrile (PN) as an internal standard with calibration against acrylonitrile-enhanced blank samples.

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