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The European Union JRC has released the fourth version of the Guidelines for Testing Conditions for Food Contact Kitchenware. Kitchenware enterprises must pay attention!

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2023-08-22

The European Union JRC has released the fourth edition of the Guidelines for Testing Conditions for Food Contact Kitchenware, which lists the testing conditions for plastic, metal, silicone and rubber, paper and cardboard kitchenware products. Kitchenware enterprises must pay attention!

In July 2023, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Union released the fourth edition of the Guidelines for Testing Conditions for Food Contact Kitchenware. The guide provides examples of testing conditions for kitchen utensils such as plastic, metal, silicone and rubber, paper and cardboard.

If it involves exporting kitchen utensils to Europe, please pay attention to the update of the testing conditions guide to ensure product compliance and avoid affecting exports.

第四版食品接触厨具测试条件指南

Source：publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu

Guide Update Background

The updated guidelines were developed through discussions between the European Union Reference Laboratory for Food Contact Materials (EURL-FCM) and some National Reference Laboratories (NRLs) in member countries.

They agreed on a series of test conditions (i.e. contact temperature and contact time) to ensure comparability of test results under the requirements of Regulation (EU) 2017/625.

Overview of Guide Content

The guide provides examples of testing conditions for kitchen utensils such as plastic, metal, silicone and rubber, paper and cardboard.

Testing requirements:

Among them, the testing conditions for plastic products refer to the requirements of Regulation (EU) 10/2011.

At the EU level, there is currently no unified regulation for other material types of products, and the corresponding testing requirements can refer to the regulations of member countries.

In addition, this guideline also specifies the pre-treatment methods for different samples and the recommended surface to volume ratio for soaking.

Category table:

The recommended testing conditions in the guide are mainly presented in the form of tables. Tables 2 to 5 respectively show the testing conditions for plastic, metal and alloy, silicone and rubber, and paper and cardboard products.

Table 6 explains the basic principle of selecting specific testing conditions (time and temperature) for the above material types of products. Table 7 lists the changes made in this guide compared to the previous version.
The testing conditions in this guide are only applicable to household products, but can also be used to establish testing conditions for certain industrial grade food processing equipment.