Regulations by material – Summary of requirements
Food contact materials - European and American Directives

Inertia criteria to be met

Good to know:

• substances used in manufacturing authorized by the positive lists (monomers and additives including colorants) ;

• overall migration less than 10 mg/dm² or 60 mg/kg ;

• specific migrations lower than LMS.

Applicable basic texts

There are six of them:

• consolidated Commission Directive 2002/72/EC of August 6, 2002 relating to plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs (amended by Directives 2004/1/EC, 2004/19/EC,...