Eurofins Product Testing - Consumer products and materials. We consult, analyse and test in all stages of the product – from development, production, transport, sale, disposal, import and export.
Through his subsidiary based in Danemark EUROFINS PRODUCT TESTING is belonging to the French group EUROFINS Scientific with 2.5 B€, 28 000 pers, 310 laboratories through 39 countries.
The basic regulatory requirements for FCM (Food Contact Material) in the harmonized European context are the Framework Regulation (EC) No. 1935/2004 and GMP Regulation (EC) No. 2023/2006 ensuring that :
- raw material are traceable
- the article is produced in a constant quality
- the composition of food is not altered
- smell, taste an colour are not altered
- human health is not endangered
In addition, there are material-specific requirements e.g. for plastics-regulation (EC) No. 10/211, BfR - recommendations for paper o ilicones, allof them have to be applied as well.
European legal requirements for food contact materials are becoming stricter and stricter, making it increasingly difficult in the whole industrial suply-chain (from basic raw to finished product), to kep up with them.
In addition consumers are becoming more and more sensitive to potentil contaminants in food originating in FCM, especially when they are made of plastics.
Moreover almost every year the media reports a new scandal conaminant (plasticisers, phtalates, bisphenol A, mineral oils, ..... ) fund in FCM often manufacured in Asia.
EUROFINS PRODUCT TESTING is the one of the world's leading organization within food contact material testing. EUROFINS Fit For Food certification provide assurance that all product-related health safety criteria for contact with food have been adequately met.
When you give your customer reassurance about your food contact materia, you create value for your business. I you choose to certify your products Fit For Food, you choose to have a competitive advantage.
All you need to run your factory !
