Packaging Laboratory Services
IIP has laboratories to measure-determine physical-mechanical and chemical features of products made of different materials. These laboratories are accredited by Accredia (National system for the accreditation of certification and inspection bodies). By Packaging characterization laboratory, tests are performed on products realized with different materials destined to contact with food. Legislation on food packaging has gone through a constant and quick update, also due to greater attention and sensibility by the parts involved, final consumers – users, food production companies and/or large-scale retail trade.
The will of the parts involved, as well as public authority’s, to have increasing guarantees on food security in compliance with the law, is causing an increase of characterization requests of packaging for food purposes.
The main regulatory interventions are the following:
- DM 21/03/1973 and following modifications and integrations (Ministerial Decree)
- Reg. UE 1935/2004 (European Union regulation)
- Reg. 2023/2006
- Reg.10/2011
- The tests that can be done are the following:
- global migration analysis according to what stated in DM 21/03/1973 and in Reg.10/2011;
- specific migration analysis of a defined/non-defined composite content within the packaging;
- evaluation of the possible FLEXIBLE PACKAGING set-off analysis through the identification
- and quantity evaluation of residual solvents
- other analysis:
- determination of metal specific migration on packaging materials samples.