CEPI guideline for paper with food contact

The Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI) and the International Confederation of paper and board converters in Europe (CITPA) have launched the voluntary "Industry Guideline for the Compliance of Paper & Board Materials and Articles for Food Contact".

 

The guideline, which has been independently peer reviewed by PIRA International, offers route to compliance with the EC Framework regulation 1935/2004, which covers all materials and articles which come in contact with food. It gives guidance to paper and board producers as well as institutions and public authorities in how to ensure that paper and board meets the quality standards appropriate to its intended use in food contact. This means it will not endanger human health by causing an unacceptable change in the food's composition or deterioration in the way the food tastes, looks, feels and smells.

The health and safety implications of food contact are taken very seriously by the paper industry. When it comes to consumer protection, the sector has cooperated at national government and EU level for many years.

 

Click on the image below to download the Guidelines.	To help you understand what SCA Containerboard is doing in this area, we have produced a brochure dedicated to this subject. Click here to download the Brochure.

 

CEPI will also publish a Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) for the industry. Put simply, the Guideline spells out the rules, and the GMP describes a management system for those rules to be obeyed. GMP is required by Regulation 2023/2006, a general GMP requirement recently published by the European Commission.