欧盟 食品包装印刷油墨指南

EuPIA Guideline on Printing Inks
applied to the non-food contact surface of food packaging materials and articles November 2011
(Replaces the September 2009 version) 1. Introduction
EuPIA member companies have, for many years, followed a policy of Responsible Care / Coatings Care working for Sustainable Development, with a high level of Product Stewardship activity. This is based on a strong commitment to protect consumers’ health, and, through the years, has led to the publication of many recommendations. 1 Having regard to the fact that there is a Framework Regulation applicable to all food packaging, but not yet any specific Community legislation concerning printing inks for food packaging, EuPIA have developed a Guideline for their members, based on current European legislation, which gives detailed recommendations as to how to formulate inks which will comply with this Regulation; this is in line with the EuPIA strategy in the field of packaging inks. It also takes into account the work done in cooperation with the Council of Europe Committee of Experts on Food Contact Materials.
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Legislation
Whilst European harmonised legislation does not specifically cover printing inks in their supplied form, there are some legislative instruments which impact on materials and articles intended for direct contact with food, whilst being printed on the non-food-contact side. Regulation (EC) No 1935/2004 requires in Article 3 that materials and articles in contact with food shall be manufactured in accordance with good manufacturing practices, so that under normal or foreseeable conditions of use, they do not transfer their constituents to food in quantities which could: - endanger human health; or - bring about an unacceptable change in the composition of the food; or - bring about a deterioration in the organoleptic characteristics thereof. Inks, once printed and dried/cured, on the non-food-contact side of a packaging material in contact with food become a component of this packaging and this packaging has to comply with the requirements of Article 3. EuPIA recommends ensuring traceability during ink manufacturing analogous to the requirements as set out in Article 17: the traceability of printed materials and articles at all stages in order to facilitate control, the recall of defective products, consumer information and the attribution of responsibility .
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REGULATION (EC) No 1935/2004 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 27 October 2004 on materials and articles intended to come into contact with food and repealing Directives 80/590/EEC and 89/109/EEC, OJEU L338 of 13. 11. 2004
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