Article history:
Received 19 September 2013
Received in revised form
28 November 2013
Accepted 29 November 2013 The interaction between food and metal packaging can be a potential source of trace elements release, which if ingested by humans can cause harmful effects. The present study is undertaken to investigate the leaching of elements from packaging materials into canned foods under different conditions of temperature, pH and storage period. Elemental analysis was done using Energy Dispersive-X-Ray Fluorescence (ED-XRF) for packaging materials and Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectro-