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Food Contact Services

Testing and regulatory support to help you ensure compliance

The vast amount of legislation on the safety of food packaging can be baffling. However, Pira has over 25 years' experience helping clients comply with these regulations around the globe. We can provide advice and training to help you understand what you need to do, and testing and technical consultancy to help you produce the information you need.

Pira can help your organisation:

Comply with food contact legislation in all the jurisdictions where it exists, namely the EU, individual European counties, the USA, Canada, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, China, South East Asia, India and Israel.
Notify new food contact substances to enable their legal use in Europe and the USA.
Produce and use recycled materials for food contact applications.
Identify the identity and source of the chemicals responsible for packaging taints and odours to enable you to eliminate them.

Meet the experts: Introduction to Food Contact Regulations
Meet two Pira Food Contact Regulations experts at this October course. If you are new to legislation, need an update or are unsure how to guarantee your company complies with key regulations, it's ideal. Over two days you'll learn about food contact regulations in Europe and the US and how to comply. You'll also find out about the regulations for a variety of different materials as well as what to expect in the future.... view site
Food for Thought - EU regulations for active and intelligent materials
The EU adopted a regulation this year governing active and intelligent materials and products that come into contact with food. Dr Alistair Irvine, Principal Consultant in Food Packaging Safety at Pira International, welcomes the move. This article originally appeared in the ‘The Packaging Professional’, the magazine of The Packaging Society, see www.iom3.org/content/packaging ... view document
Recent Developments in Food Contact Legislation
Dr Alistair Irvine, Principle Consultant in Food Packaging Safety at Pira International guides us through the recent changes. This article is an updated version of one published in Packaging Professional Magazine on 14th July 2008....more

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Expert Profiles

Alistair manages the Food Packaging Safety Section within Pira International. This involves advising clients on the safety legislation which applies to food packaging in a wide range of different countries throughout the world and coordinating work programmes to ensure that clients’ products meet these requirements.
Alistair Irvine
Principal Consultant, Food Contact Services
Nick spent 18 years as an analytical chemist with British Petroleum where he rose to become Manager of Elemental and Chemical Analysis. He joined Pira International in April 1996 as Business Manager of the Analytical Group and has since become UK Director responsible for all the chemical and physical testing of packaging, printing and paper.
Nick Kernoghan
UK Director