Tagi Oferty: Food Contact Materials

Consultancy Services

J.S. HAMILTON POLAND IS:

  • a leading laboratory in testing of packaging for food, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals in Central & Eastern Europe,
  • an independent research center offering knowledge and experience as well as a wide range of analytical methods,
  • a reliable Partner of Food, Packaging, Plastics Processing and Paper Industry,
  • expert team ensuring impartial assessment of the Quality, Compliance and Safety of Products.

We support our Partners’ business growth and development, confirm their credibility, responsibility & innovation.

J.S. Hamilton Poland Sp. z o.o. is a laboratory that comprehensively combines consultancy services with comprehensive analytical research. Our experts team ensures an independent assessment of the quality of products.  The central laboratory in Gdynia and a network of specialized local laboratories have been offering a wide range of accredited physic-chemical, microbiological and sensory analyzes since 1949.

J.S Hamilton’s experts advise the appropriate and optimized configuration of testing plan in order to ensure compliance with the relevant national and European safety regulations, as well as with specific requirements of  clients, organizations, Brand Owners and retailers.

We offer the following consultancy services:

  • documents review and verification,
  • set-up of optimized testing plans for compliance assessment,
  • compliance assessment based on EU 10/2011, Swiss Ordinance, BfR Recommendations and relevant, Industry Guidance (EuPIA, CEPI, FCA, FEICA, JRC, EFSA, EDQM)
  • toxicological risk assessment – e.g., by TTC-concept method,
  • drafts of DoC (Declaration of Compliance) for final FCMs,
  • trainings.

Food comes into contact with many materials and articles during production, processing, storage, preparation and serving, before its eventual consumption. Such materials and articles are called Food Contact Materials (FCMs). Food contact materials are either intended to be brought into contact with food, are already in contact with food, or can reasonably be brought into contact with food or transfer their constituents to the food under normal or foreseeable use. This includes direct or indirect contact.

Food contact materials (FCMs) are widely used in everyday life in the form of food packaging, dishes and utensils, tableware, food containers, etc. When put into contact with food, the different materials may behave differently and transfer their components to the food. If transferred in large quantities, many chemicals might endanger human health, or change the food itself. Therefore, food contact materials are subject to legally binding rules at EU level, currently laid down in Regulation (EC)1935/2004, which aims at ensuring FCM safety but also the effective functioning of the internal market in FCMs raw materials and final products. The purpose of this framework legislation for FCMs is to ensure the effective functioning of the internal market for materials and articles intended to come into contact with food and secure a high level of protection of human health, as well as the interests of consumers.

(EC)1935/2004 provides general requirements that all FCMs must be manufactured in accordance with good manufacturing practice (GMP) so that they are safe and do not change the properties of food in unacceptable ways. As the general requirements for all FCMs set out under Article 3 are linked to the general obligations on GMP, separate rules on GMP are laid down in Commission Regulation (EC)2023/2006. It also specifies other rules, including those on labelling and on compliance documentation and traceability, and lays down the risk assessment process involving EFSA as part of the authorization process for substances.

 

The following are examples of key legislation currently binding in Europe:

EU FCMs requirements overview
 

General Regulations on FCM
Regulation EC 1935/2004 (on materials and articles intended to come into contact with food)
Regulation EC 2023/2006 (on Good Manufacturing Practices)
 

Specific Materials
Ceramics Directive 84/500/EEC
Epoxy Resins Regulation (EC) 1895/2005
Regenerated Cellulose Film Directive 2007/42/EC
Recycled Plastics Materials Regulation (EC) 282/2008
Active and Intelligent Packaging Regulation (EC) 450/2009
Plastics Regulation (EU) 10/2011
 

Specific Regulations
Regulation (EU) 321/2011 (restricting the use of bisphenol A in polycarbonate infant feeding bottles)
Regulation (EU) 284/2011 (import procedures for polyamide and melamine plastic kitchenware from China and Hong Kong)
Regulation (EC) 1895/2005 (restricting the use of certain epoxy resins)
Directive 93/11/EEC (regulating the release of N-nitrosamines and N-nitrosatable substances from rubber teats and soothers)

 

The declaration of compliance (DoC) is a document that contains basic information about FCMs as required by applicable laws. The DoC should contain information about the following:

  • who manufactured or imported the materials or articles or the raw materials intended for their manufacture,
  • what they are,
  • date of the declaration,
  • confirmation that the materials or articles meet relevant requirements laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1935/2004 on materials and articles intended to come into contact with food and in any specific measures,
  • information about the compliance of substances used that are subject to any restrictions and/or specifications that will allow the downstream businesses ensure compliance with those restrictions,
  • information about the compliance of substances subject to a restriction in food, about the level of their specific migration and, where appropriate, purity criteria to enable the user of these materials or articles to comply with the law,
  • specifications on the use of the material or article, such as:
  • type or types of food it is intended to be put in contact with,
  • time and temperature of treatment and storage in contact with the food,
  • ratio of food-contact surface area to volume used to establish the compliance of the material or article,
  • confirmation that the material or article complies with any rules on functional barriers when one is incorporated into the material or article.

 

Trainings

ABOUT TRAINING COURSES

J.S. Hamilton Poland conducts prestigious seminars, trainings, workshops and laboratory classes aimed at the food, cosmetics and household chemistry, packaging and environmental protection sectors. The participants of training courses can be: technologists, quality and laboratory workers, production department employees, personnel responsible for quality and product safety, managers and employees of legal or marketing departments. Everyone can raise their professional competence, improve work efficiency and better prepare themselves to carry out their professional tasks at a relatively low cost of training. J.S. Hamilton Poland is registered in the Register of Training Institutions (RIS) and the Database of Development Services – PARP, which allows the participants of our training courses to obtain co-financing of training from public funds.

Moreover, the competence of the trainers and the quality of the trainings conducted have been confirmed by the ISO 9001: 2015-10 Certificate in the scope of training and development and consulting services.

AREAS OF TRAINING

Our offer includes training in areas such as:

  • Food safety and quality, including training courses and workshops covering: sensory evaluation, microbiological testing, allergen and GMO analysis, food safety management systems, HACCP, ISO 22000, FSSC, BRC and IFS systems for retail chains, commodity and food quality training;
  • feed safety, the implementation of HACCP procedures, the GMP+ system, the legal aspects of trade in feed and provisions relating to its labeling;
  • Packaging, including: training on BRC food packaging safety, global and specific migration, eco-design, life cycle and packaging recycling;
  • Cosmetics, including: training and workshops on sensory and microbiological analysis of cosmetics, legal requirements for safe use and labeling of cosmetic preparations;
  • Environmental protection, including: training and workshops on sewage sludge management, packaging waste management, municipal tasks in the field of environmental protection, charges for using the environment;
  • Chemicals and petroleum products, including: training in liquid fuel sampling light fuel oil sampling, test methods for fuel oil and liquid fuels, quantity accounting for fuel oil.

TRAINING STAFF

Training courses are conducted by lecturers drawn from our own staff, using their extensive knowledge and experience. We also invite experts and auditors of leading certification companies, employees of consulting companies from Poland and abroad to give lectures.

The mission of our company is to take care of the welfare of our customers by satisfying the educational needs of the participants of our seminars and training courses and by organising training courses at the highest level.

TRAINING PACKAGES

We offer training packages, covered by a special discount, which will allow you to obtain the necessary knowledge in a given subject. After each training included in the package you receive a certificate confirming your participation in the training, and completion of the whole package guarantees obtaining a specialist certificate.

CLOSED TRAINING

In order to meet the expectations of our clients, we organise training adapted to the needs and specificity of the company. Each training included in the training schedule can be realised as a closed training on customer’s request. This also applies to training courses which are not listed in the training schedule.

Training courses and workshops are organised at a time and location determined by the client. Programs are usually priced according to the number of days and the number of participants so that the company can save considerable sums of money in the case of larger groups and reduce travel and accommodation costs by organising the training at its own premises. Each participant receives training materials. The training ends with a certificate or attestation confirming the highest quality of training.

QUALITY AND FOOD SAFETY MANAGEMENT ACADEMY J.S.HAMILTON POLAND

The Training and Audit Department of J.S. Hamilton Poland also invites for a cycle of training courses, which in a comprehensive way prepares present and future employees of quality departments of food industry companies for the role of managers responsible for the development, implementation and improvement of food and packaging safety and quality management systems.

In one semester (165 hours), students of the Academy acquire knowledge in the areas of food contaminants, sensory analysis, packaging regulations, quality management system requirements and food safety. Our lecturers, experienced auditors and managers of quality departments in food industry companies, share their practical knowledge with the students on how to carry out and document audits and interpret legal provisions.