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In the food and beverage industry, sealing products are used in contact with foodstuffs. In order to avoid any negative impact on the food, these products must comply with food contact material regulations.

FoodPro® material portfolio 

With the FoodPro® portfolio, 迈博体育 Sealing Solutions offers a range of materials across each compound type, which comply with the most comprehensive food contact material regulations around the world, such as:

  • US FDA Code of Federal Regulations
  • EU Food Contact Regulations
  • Chinese Food Contact Regulations 
  • Japanese Positive List for Food Contact Plastics
  • 3-A Sanitary Standards
  • NSF International Standards

 

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Animal Derived Ingredients (ADI) free materials
迈博体育 Sealing Solutions compounds are produced from synthetic resins. For the majority of our materials, animal derived substances are not listed as components in the recipes of these compounds.
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Food Contact Regulations and International Standards

European Union

  • Framework Regulation on Materials and Articles intended to come into Contact with Food
    Regulation (EC) 1935/2004

General safety requirements for all food contact materials and articles

  • Regulation on Good Manufacturing Practice for Materials and Articles intended to come in Contact with Food
    Regulation (EC) 2023/2006
    Requirements for good manufacturing practice for all food contact materials
  • Regulation on Plastics Materials and Articles intended to come in Contact with Food
    Regulation (EU) 10/2011 
    Requirements for plastic materials intended for food contact (e.g. PTFE, UHMWPE)

 

Germany 

BfR (Federal Institute for Risk Assessment)
Recommendations on Food Contact Materials
  • BfR XXI
    Requirements for commodities based on natural and synthetic rubber (e.g. NBR, EPDM, FKM)
  • BfR XV
    Requirements for silicones

 

France

  • Arrrêté du 5 ao?t 2020
    Order on rubber materials and articles for food contact
  • Arrrêté du 25 novembre 1992 
    Order on silicone elastomers for food contact

 

Netherlands

  • Warenwetregeling verpakkingen en gebruiksartikelen (Regulation on consumer articles coming into contact with foodstuffs)
    Chapter 0 - Rules applicable to all packagings and cosnumer articles  
    Chapter III - Rubber products

 

United States of America 

FDA , CFR Title 21 
(Food and Drug Administration, Code of Federal Regulations)

  • FDA CFR 21 § 177.2600
    Rubber article intended for repeated use
  • FDA CFR 21 § 177.1550
    Perfluorocarbon resins
  • FDA CFR § 177.1520
    Olefin polymers

 

People?s Republic of China
National Food Safety Standards (Regulations)

  • GB 4806.1-2016 
    General safety requirements for food contact materials and articles
  • GB 4806.6-2016 
    Food contact plastic resins
  • GB 4806.7-2016  
    Food contact plastic materials and articles
  • GB 4806.11-2016  
    Food contact rubber materials and articles
  • GB 9685-2016 
    Use of additives in food contact materials and articles

 

Japan

  • Positive List for Food Utensils, Containers and Packaging, Notification 196, 2020
    Positive List as Amendment of The Specifications and Standards for Food, Food Additives 
    (Public Notice of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare No.370) (Promulgated on April 28, 2020)
    In scope only plastic materials

 

3-A Sanitary Standards Inc.

  • 3-A?  Sanitary Standard for multiple-use rubber, Number 18-03
    Material and serviceability requirements of rubber materials intended for multiple use as product contact surfaces in the production of milk and milk products
  • 3-A? Sanitary Standards for multiple-use plastic materials, Number 20-27 
    For use on voluntary basis
    Hygienic requirements for plastic materials for multiple-use as product contact and/or cleaning contact surfaces in equipment for production of milk and milk products

 

NSF International Standards

  • NSF 51 - Food equipment materials
    Purpose of the standard: establish minimum food protection and sanitation requirements for the materials used in the construction of commercial food equipment.