Food Contact Materials

Food contact material testing is used around the world to ensure that food is not contaminated by the products it meets. At SGS, we perform food container testing and packaging material testing to ensure that your products conform the regulation for food contact materials.

Food contact material testing is used around the world to ensure that food is not contaminated by the products it meets. At SGS, we perform food container testing and packaging material testing to ensure that your products conform the regulation for food contact materials. All materials that will meet food, whether it is packaging, tableware, glassware, ceramics or storage containers, should be tested to ensure that they are safe. They must not pass harmful substances into the food. Food contact testing can protect the health of consumers.

We provide food packaging material testing services to the world. Our laboratory’s testing is according to the regional packaging material regulations of the EU, US, Japan and China. The main regulation are as follows:

 

EU Market

  • All materials – (EC)1935/2004
  • Ceramics – Regulation 84/500/EEC, which revised from 2005/31/EC
  • Recycle cellulose membrane – Regulation 2007/42/EC
  • Plastics – Regulation (EU) 10/2011. Revised to the food contacted plastics
  • Nitrosamine – Regulation 93/11/EEC
  • BADGE, BFDGE and NOGE plastics – (EC) 1895/2005

 

US Market

  • U.S. food contact material legislation is supervised by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
  • California’s ceramics and glass materials are supervised by California Proposition 65

China Market

  • The materials must meet the requirements of the Food Safety Law of the People’s Republic of China

 

Japan Market

  • Materials need to conform the Section 2 of Food Sanitation Act
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