TY - JOUR
TI - Modeling release of chemicals from multilayer materials into food
AU - Huang Xiu-Ling
AU - Zhang Xiao
AU - Zhang Xian-Tao
AU - Yam Kit L
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2016
VL - 20
IS - 3
SP - 839
EP - 843
PT - Article
AB - The migration of chemicals from materials into food is predictable by various  mathematical models. In this article, a general mathematical model is  developed to quantify the release of chemicals through multilayer packaging  films based on Fick's diffusion. The model is solved numerically to elucidate  the effects of different diffusivity values of different layers, distribution  of chemical between two adjacent layers and between material and food, mass  transfer at the interface of material and food on the migration process.