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Your materials and packaging are in contact with a food item. Several approaches help you guarantee the regulatory compliance required for their use / marketing. The LNE Laboratory guides you through the technical assistance stage, from laboratory measurement through modeling.
Proposed services
Among the types of characterizations proposed:
- Study of food migration,
- Compliance testing and compliance prediction by means of simulation,
- Quantification of total and residual contents,
- Concentration of chemical substances,
- Elemental metal quantification.
For all special requests, we are also able to make our expertise and support available through the provision of regulatory technical assistance.
Resources available
To carry out this mission, we can deploy the following equipment:
| Instrument | Specifications | Instrument use |
|---|---|---|
| Chromatograph in the gaseous phase coupled to a detector or mass spectrometer |
Options:
|
Quantification of total and residual contents Concentration of organic substances or compounds |
| Chromatograph in the high-performance liquid phase coupled to a detector (UV, Fluo) | Quantification of total and residual contents Concentration of organic substances or compounds |
|
| Induction plasma torch spectrometer (ICP) | Elemental metal quantification in inorganic, metal or organic matrices | |
| Induction plasma torch spectrometer coupled to a mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) | Elemental metal quantification in inorganic, metal or organic matrices | |
| Ionic chromatograph | Elemental quantification (metal anions and cations) in inorganic matrices | |
| Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), at 400 Hz |
Spectral identification of chemical substances | |
| Fourier transform infrared spectrometer coupled to a microscope |
|
Spectral identification of chemical substances |
| Climate-controlled ovens and cells |
|
Migration contact |
| Instrumented microwave test bench |
|
Mapping of heating temperatures at the food/packaging interface |
| Cluster of numerical simulation calculations |
Modeling and simulation of migration phenomena |
Applicable regulations
- European regulations EU No. 1935/2004,
- Regulation (EU) No. 10/2011 (plastics),
- Regulation (EU) No. 284/2011 (Chinese imports of utensils and culinary items),
- Regulation (EC) No. 282/2008 (recycled plastics),
- Regulation (EC) No. 450/2009 (active and intelligent materials and objects),
- European Directive No. 84/500/EEC (ceramics),
- National legislative texts (orders and decrees for silicone and rubber articles) and Memorandum No. 2014-108 DGCCRF (rubber, silicone, paper-cardboard, wood, etc.).
Products involved
Materials, packaging, consumer objects and products intended to be placed in contact with foodstuffs.
