Food-contact Materials

If you need help in assessing toxicological compliance with any specific regulatory requirements, or indeed the general safety issues as laid down by the European Framework Regulation (EC) No. 1935/2004 on materials and articles intended to come into contact with food, contact bibra. Our outstanding team of scientists have many years of experience in the evaluation of the toxicological risks posed by single chemicals or by multi-component packaging formulations. 

There are specific legislative requirements for particular materials and articles:

• Regulation (EU) No. 10/2011 – plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food (as amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No 1282/2011)
• Regulation (EC) No. 450/2009 – active and intelligent materials and articles intended to come into contact with food
• Regulation (EC) No. 282/2008 – recycled plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food
• Directive 2007/42/EC – materials and articles made of regenerated cellulose film intended to come into contact with food
• Directive 84/500/EEC – ceramic articles intended to come into contact with food (as amended by Directive 2005/31/EC which relates specifically to the migration into food of lead and cadmium)

And for particular substances: 

• Regulation (EU) No. 321/2011 – restricting the use of Bisphenol A in plastic infant feeding bottles
• Regulation (EU) No. 284/2011 – import procedures for polyamide and melamine plastic kitchenware from China and Hong Kong
• Decision 2010/169/EU – non-inclusion of 2,4,4’-trichloro-2’-hydroxydiphenyl ether in the EU additives list for plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food
• Regulation (EC) No. 1895/2005 – restricting the use of certain epoxy derivatives in materials and articles intended to come into contact with food
• Directive 93/11/EEC – release of N-nitrosamines and N-nitrosatable substances from rubber teats and soothers

If you need help with assessing toxicological compliance in any of these areas, the bibra team are the people you should call on.

Let us be your partner of choice in the field of food packaging and food-contact materials.