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Food Technology
There is a plastic coating inside every food can, and it is the most heavily regulated few microns in your kitchen
Your tomatoes never touch the metal of the can — a polymer lining a few microns thick is in the way, and that lining has been reformulated twice under regulatory pressure. Here is what migration actually means, why food-contact rules measure how much rather than whether, and the questions that separate a real compliance document from the words 'food grade'.
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Materials Science
How antimicrobial coatings keep working after the cleaner has gone
A disinfectant stops working the moment it dries. An antimicrobial coating is designed for the hours in between — the gap between one clean and the next. Here is the chemistry behind it, what a 99.9% claim actually measures, and the questions worth asking before you buy one.
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