What Are the European Food-Grade Product Testing Standards?

Service Background

In recent years, the quality and safety issues of food contact materials have attracted continuous attention from countries around the world. Major trading countries have successively introduced stricter laws and regulations and improved regulatory mechanisms to eliminate potential quality hazards and strengthen the safety management of food contact materials.

Product Scope

Products involved in food contact materials: food packaging, tableware, kitchen utensils, food processing machinery, kitchen appliances, etc.

Food contact materials include: plastics & resins, rubber & silicone, metals & alloys, paper & paperboard, glass & ceramics & enamels, colorants & printing inks, etc.

Service markets

• Germany: LGGB Section 30 & 31

• France: DGCCRF

• Italy: Ministerial Decree of 21 March 1973

• The United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland, Norway, Denmark and other countries are also covered within our service capacity.

*Common Test Items: organoleptic testing, total extracted substances, specific migration of heavy metals, specific migration of aromatic amines, color fastness.

Relevant Standards for Physical Testing

Testing Cycle

7 working days (30+ days required for long-term storage products)

Other Common Items

REACH svhc, REACH Annex XVII, PAHs, Phthalates, Short-Chain Chlorinated Paraffins (SCCP), etc.