| 1 | | Preservation of quality through packaging | | 1 |
| 2 | | Characteristics of plastic materials | | 9 |
| 3 | | Additives for plastics and their transformation products | | 47 |
| 4 | | Partition coefficients | | 79 |
| 5 | | Models for diffusion in polymers | | 125 |
| 6 | | Prediction of diffusion coefficients in gases, liquids, amorphous solids and plastic materials using an uniform model | | 159 |
| 7 | | Transport equations and their solutions | | 183 |
| 8 | | Numerical solutions of the diffusion equation | | 221 |
| 9 | | Permeation of gases, water vapor and volatile organic compounds | | 239 |
| 10 | | Migration of plastic constituents | | 287 |
| 11 | | Migration from food packaging: Regulatory considerations for estimating exposure | | 359 |
| 12 | | European Community legislation on materials and articles intended to come into contact with food | | 393 |
| 13 | | Sensory problems caused by food and packaging interactions | | 407 |
| 14 | | Case study: styrene monomer migration into dairy products in single serve portion packs | | 427 |
| 15 | | Possibilities and limitations of migration modeling | | 445 |
| | | Appendices | | |
| | | Index | | 569 |