Sanitary safety, mechanical resistance, suitability for use, intelligent design and respect for the environment are the qualities you expect from materials, objects and packaging intended to come into contact with food.
LNE's expertise
You need support to check and optimize the health safety of your materials
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To help you:
- Know the regulatory requirements for materials and objects intended to come into contact with foodstuffs;
- Provide proof of compliance with these requirements;
- Integrate food safety concepts into innovation and research / development.
LNE offers solutions and support in all phases from packaging design to production, and adapts methodologies and solutions to your needs.
Call on LNE's expertise, consult the services offered: technical assistance / consulting / engineering, analyses, training, certification, r&d
The services on offer
Technical Assistance / Consulting / Engineering
You want to:
- identify the regulatory requirements applicable to your products;
- check the relevance and completeness of documentation provided by your suppliers;
- obtain assistance in drawing up written declarations of compliance communicated to your customers;
- be supported in developing safer materials, objects and packaging.
LNE offers you:
- reviews of documentation provided by suppliers of materials or finished objects,
- advice on drawing up your written declarations of conformity,
- reviews of material composition or formulation,
- research and development of new methods and concepts to optimize your products (measurements, improved properties, new materials, new characteristic...)
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Watch
You want to keep abreast of, or even be alerted to, changes in the regulatory requirements applicable to your products.
LNE offers you:
- to subscribe to an online watch on the website www.contactalimentaire.fr ;
- define a personalized watch with its experts, allowing you to be notified of regulatory developments as they happen, and obtain periodic updates on regulatory news.
Find out more about the regulatory watch offer
Material composition analysis
You want:
- search for NIAS and neoformed
- track the evolution of your material over time for quality control
- comparing materials to highlight a formulation change
- look for changes in chemical composition altering physico-chemical, mechanical properties, etc.
LNE can identify and quantify substances present in materials through multi-technique analysis of organic substances (GC/FID, GC/MS, HSGC/MS, HPLC/UV, NMR, FTIR spectrometry) or inorganic chemistry (ICP, ICP/MS, X-ray fluorescence).
Substance migration analysis
You want to check compliance with permitted migration limits in foodstuffs.
LNE offers to measure the migration of substances under the conditions stipulated by the regulations with various foodstuff simulants (distilled water, ethanol 10%, ethanol 20%, ethanol 50%, vegetable oils, isooctane, ethanol 95%, MPPO and other simulants).
Analysis of material permeability
You need data to assess the shelf life of food products.
LNE can measure oxygen, carbon dioxide or water vapor permeability using a variety of analytical techniques (Coulometric, chromatographic, gravimetric or infrared).
Modeling substance migration
You want to:
- predict the migration of a substance throughout the supply chain to verify the regulatory compliance of your products.
- identify a critical substance, material, step or design
- improve health safety by optimizing the design of your products.
LNE offers you calculation tools to model material transfers based on substance properties (diffusion coefficient and partition coefficient), material and object characteristics (material thickness, concentration of substances in materials, material density, object volume), foodstuff characteristics (volume and density) and contact and use conditions (surface area, temperature and contact time).
Training
You want to know the regulatory requirements applicable to your products.
LNE offers two types of training courses:
- Inter-company catalog training
- Intra-company training: declined from catalog training or designed "tailor-made" to meet your needs
LNE training catalogue (in french)
In-house training (in french)
Certification
You want independent third-party recognition:
- compliance with standards for materials or finished objects;
- compliance with quality or hygiene management system standards for manufacturing processes of materials or finished objects;
LNE offers you:
- to certify products covered by French standards by carrying out analyses and audits (NF Freezer bags, NF Aluminium, NF Surprise objects);
- to certify your company by carrying out audits of quality management systems (ISO 9001) or hygiene (BRCGS, NF EN 15593, FECO/ESBO, ISO 22000 / ISO TS 22002-4).