- Packaging materials
Suitability
Suitability of materials in contact with food and other products (pharmaceuticals, cosmetics…)
Study to determine the suitability of materials for contact with food and other products
Study to determine the suitability of materials for contact with food and other products
Access the document that allows you to guarantee compliance of your material’s suitability for contact with food or other products.
Materials in contact with food and other products for personal use (pharmaceuticals, cosmetics…) must comply with strict regulations depending on the type of material and the market where they will be commercialised. Both companies that manufacture these consumer products, as well as manufacturers, processors and importers of materials in contact with them, must ensure their safety for consumers, guaranteeing that there are no migrations from the packaging that could affect their health.
Through suitability compliance studies of materials for contact with food or other products, we verify whether the packaging material under study is suitable for contact with the intended products from a chemical standpoint.
In order to address this study, Framework Regulation (EU) No 1935/2004 is considered as the legal basis, along with specific measures (e.g. Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 for plastic materials, RD 891/2006 for ceramics, RD 847/2011 for polymeric materials) or other documents (recommendations, national legislation from other Member States) that allow the establishment of suitability for contact with food.
At AINIA, we add value
- We are specialists in analysing the interaction between the product and the packaging, assessing the suitability of each packaging solution according to the product it contains.
- We ensure packaging safety control
- We have more than 20 years of experience in this field
- Our technical staff is highly qualified and provides personalised advice tailored to each client’s needs, keeping companies up to date with the latest regulatory and market trends.
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Our team has extensive experience in the field of food contact materials, participating in standardisation committee meetings, reference laboratory forums for food contact materials, and delivering training on food contact materials through tailor-made courses, as well as training programmes for health inspectors such as BTFS (Best Training for Safer Food) or TAIEX (Technical Assistance Information Exchange Office).
- Designated as an Official Control laboratory for:
- Overall migration in aqueous simulants (ethanol 10%, 20% and 50%, acetic acid 3%)
- Overall migration in fatty simulant (vegetable oil)
- Migración global en simulantes sustitutivos al graso: isooctano y etanol 95%)
- Specific migration of primary aromatic amines
- Specific migration of formaldehyde
- Migración específica de elementos (Anexo II del Reg. 10/2011): Ba, Co, Cu, Fe, Li, Mn, Zn, Al, Ni, Sb, As, Cd, Cr, Pb, Hg, La, Eu, Gd, Tb)
Suitability of materials in contact with food
The service development includes the following stages:
- Evaluation of the documentation provided by the company regarding the raw materials used in the manufacture of the material
- Analysis of overall migration and specific migration of analytes with specific maximum migration limits
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Preparation of the technical report interpreting the results, comparing the data obtained with the provisions set out in current legislation or other widely recognised standards or agreements
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