In the US, approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is required for a new material that has direct or indirect contact with food. This includes, for example, new packaging materials, cooking or baking materials, coatings for beverage cans and liquid containers, and inks and adhesives that come into contact with plastic packaging. Essentially, materials that come into contact with food are not expected to alter the quality, structure or substance of the foodstuffs they protect. In this respect, food contact testing of packaging materials is critical to protect consumer health. These test methods include a variety of tests and migration screening to measure all impurities in food, including general migration testing, specific migration testing, and unintentionally added substances testing.
The types of food contact materials tested are generally:
These commonly used packaging materials have two purposes: to prevent food contamination and to maintain food safety and quality.
In particular, the migration of chemicals from materials that come into contact with food has negative effects on both food quality and food safety. In this regard, materials that come into direct contact with food, such as cans, bottles, plastics, caps and the like, must have a food contact certificate. Materials that come into indirect contact with food, such as cards, varnish, inks and the like, are subject to applicable legal regulations.must comply with the requirements.
Major regulations for direct and indirect contact materials include the FDA 21CFR standard, EU directive 2002/72/EC, Australian Standard AS2070-1999 and food chemicals codex (FCC). Substances that migrate from materials that come into contact with food should not be in amounts that may endanger human health. Comprehensive toxicological evaluation of both food ingredients and packaging materials is required to determine the safety of food products.
Our organization also provides analysis services for packaging food contact certification, with its trained and expert staff and advanced technological equipment, among the numerous test, measurement, analysis and evaluation studies it provides for businesses in various sectors.
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