(EC) Regulation No. 10/2011 on Plastic Materials and Articles Intended to Contact with Food

The legal regulation (EC) 10/2011 regarding plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food, in force in the European Union countries, defines the specific requirements for the production and marketing of plastic materials and articles. This regulation covers materials such as:

• Intended to come into contact with food
• Already in contact with food
• reasonably expected to come into contact with food

This legislation will apply to materials and products offered to consumers that fall into the following categories:

• Materials, products and parts thereof consisting exclusively of plastics
• Plastic multilayer materials and products held together by adhesives or other means
• Materials and products referred to, printed or covered with a coating
• Plastic sheets or plastic coatings, with these covers forming covers and gaskets forming two or more layers of different types of material
• Plastic layers in multi-material multi-layer materials and products

However, this legal regulation does not cover the following materials and substances offered to consumers and expected to be covered under other special measures:

• Ion exchange resins
• tires
• Silicones

This legislation does not touch the national regulations that apply to printing inks, adhesives or coatings.

For the purposes of regulation (EC) 10/2011,

• The expression plastic materials and articles refers to the materials and products within the scope listed above.
• plastic expression, It refers to the polymer to which additives or other substances can be added, which can act as the main structural component of final materials and objects.
• The term polymer refers to any macromolecular substance obtained by:
  • A polymerization process such as polyaddition or polycondensation or other similar processes of monomers and other starting materials
  • Chemical modification of natural or synthetic macromolecules,
  • Microbial fermentation.
• The term multilayer plastic refers to a material or product consisting of two or more layers of plastic.

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