07/24/2024
Is Your Food Packaging Safe? 🍏 🍇
Ensuring the safety of food packaging involves more than just the materials used. It's about understanding their interaction with food products.
The FDA enforces strict guidelines to keep potential contaminants in packaging below a safe threshold, ensuring they pose no dietary risk.
Migration Testing:
This crucial test determines if contaminants can migrate from packaging to food. For example, heavy metals like copper may be present but not readily migrate into food. If a component doesn't become part of the food, it's not considered a food additive.
FDA Qualification:
Companies must prove their packaging materials don't allow harmful components to migrate into food, involving rigorous challenge testing, contaminant analysis, and validation processes.
🔍 Understanding these measures is critical to keeping our food supply safe and uncontaminated.
Listen to our latest episode of the Plastic Recycling Podcast to learn more about food packaging safety!
🎧 Listen here: https://lnkd.in/dWJVznVH
Also available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Do you use food-grade recycled plastic? Reach out to CANEI with any questions or to learn more about our food-grade recycled materials. www.caneicorp.com
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