date:Jun 13, 2012
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has unveiled the results of a project to develop screening tests for so-called set-off.
The body defines set off as the unintentional transfer of substances used in printing inks from the printed (outer) surface of materials and articles intended for food packaging to the inner food contact surface.
The agency said it commissioned the research after the ink producers supplying into the packaging industry began widespread introducing polymeric photoinitiators - u