Detection and Identification of Polymer Migration into Water Induced by Heat Treatment

This study was conducted to determine if the migration of materials from plastic wrap or food and beverage packaging into food or drinks which commonly used in street food due to the influence of heat. This works is aimed provides producers, consumers and government with knowledge about the safety of plastic-based packaging. Collection of plastic packages or packaging samples from food and beverage vendors from several districts in Bali was then reduced in size and mixed with food and beverages, in this case was represented distilled water. Samples are given various heat treatments to induce and accelerate the migration of material from plastic into the food / beverage substituent. Water that was contaminated with plastic material are then separated, and the contamination which migrated was then detected using UV-visible spectroscopy and Gas Chromatography, then identified using FTIR spectroscopy to be analyzed using IGOR software.