Glutaraldehyde is a well known cross linking agent widely used in the manufacturing of biodegradable films. The pungent odour of glutaraldehyde even at very minute concentrations may hinder the film's consumer acceptance. Can anyone suggest how to remove the odour after film formation? Also, please shed some light on the detection of excess glutaraldehyde release from film after crosslinking reaction. Thanks in advance.
why don't you make use of natural botanical crosslinkers (foodgrade) without odours and thus get rid of the toxic GDA? i could get you recommendations for materials to choose.
I really appreciate your reply. That will be a good approach. But there are plenty of research papers where Glutaraldehyde has been added, but no where the odour problem has been addressed. There must be some techniques to remove the odour. That was the aim of the query.
The pungent odour of biodegradable can be removed by charcoal slurry immersion treatment.
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