The UK Food Standards Agency has published a new guide aimed at businesses involved in food packaging and at those bodies that enforce the rules governing such businesses.

The guide is intended to help companies that, in the course of their business, manufacture or use materials and articles intended to come into contact with food. It also applies to those that could be brought into contact with food or that could be the source of chemical migration into food. These materials and articles include food packaging, processing and serving equipment, kitchen utensils, tableware and patio-ware, cooking pots and pans.

The guide is for businesses that operate in the United Kingdom. It addresses:

• The legal requirements of Regulation (EC) No. 1935/2004 on chemical migration from all materials and articles in contact with food in relation to business documentation as it is required in conjunction with Regulation (EC) No. 2023/2006 on good manufacturing practice.
• Particular requirements in specific EU measures enacted in legislation across the UK 
  dealing with declarations of compliance as they apply to the materials that are the subject of those measures.
• Good business practice.

Click here to obtain copies of the guide.