Tips for a composition declaration for food contact adhesives (September 8, 2014)

This guide has been produced by FEICA's "Paper & Packaging" working group. It is aimed above all, at FEICA members and members of its national associations who manufacture adhesives for the food packaging market in the European Union (EU). The guide may also be of interest to users of adhesives intended to come into contact with foodstuffs, such as packaging converters and their downstream users, as well as other stakeholders such as legislators.

This guide contains tools, recommendations and answers such as:

• what information to collect from suppliers of raw materials for adhesives , to help determine whether or not a raw material is suitable for food contact application;
• where to find the relevant legal texts for further information, and provides a decision tree for assessing the suitability of an adhesive for the intended application?