Food Contact Materials

How to Ensure Food Packaging Safety?

Sensory

The food packaging market is on the rise. According to Statista (2022), the global market value was 305 billion USD in 2...

Food contact materials

Packaging

Food contact materials are essential in the food sector. In the form of packaging, it contributes to quality and food sa...

Declaration of compliance for food contact materials

Food Contact Materials

Food is in contact with packaging materials for long periods of time. Therefore, there are strict legal requirements to...

Migration and food contact materials

Food Contact Materials

As a professional, you naturally know all about food safety. But as a consumer, you may still be in for a few surprises....

Mérieux NutriSciences helps supporting the claim about PAPER RECYCLABILITY

Services

Recycling is one of Europe's packaging priorities: behind the label 'recyclable' is the proof that a product will be use...

Testing the 'separability' of paper packaging

Food Contact Materials

Worldwide demand for paper and board has grown steadily over the past 20 years. The biggest boost comes from packaging:...

Eyes on the proposed Regulation on Packaging and Packaging Waste

Packaging

The European Commission stated that, as part of the Green Deal and after the Single-Use Plastics Directive, it would wor...

Sustainable packaging formulation and additives: yes or no?

Packaging

Intentional added substances constitute the formulation of packaging.They are aimed at giving materials their own charac...

Limitation of microplastics: are degradable alternatives more sustainable?

Packaging

Draft Regulation on REACH restrictions on microplastics ready The European Commission has recently published a draft to...

Food Contact Materials - Waiting for the new EU legislation?

Regulatory Updates

For several years now, there has been talk about the evaluation of the current Framework Regulation on Food Contact Mate...

Phthalates in Food contact materials

Food Contact Materials

Phthalates form a family of synthetic chemicals with a wide variety of uses, ranging from consumer to industrial product...

Reassessment of the risks of bisphenol A (BPA) in food

Contaminants

The EFSA reassessed the risks of bisphenol A in food and lowered the Tolerable Daily Intake (TDI) by 100,000, setti...

Mineral Oil Hydrocarbons (MOH) in food and packaging

Food Contact Materials

Mineral oil hydrocarbons (MOH) comprise a diverse group of mixtures of hydrocarbons containing thousands of chemica...