GMP

GMP - Good Manufacturing Practice

The EU Regulation 2023/2006 demands GMP for the production of food packaging

What this phase really refers to:
"A management tool designed to prevent migration, organoleptic changes and contamination and to ensure compliance with the most important requirements laid down with regard to packaging."

Guidelines of the associations helps for the implementation

1. Ink manufacturers

Good Manufacturing Practices for the Production of Packaging Inks formulated for the use on the non food contact surfaces of food packaging and articles intended to come into contact with food.
(part of the EuPIA Guideline)

EuPIA GMP

GMP requirements are fulfilled by the hubergroup's "GMP/MGA Guideline for Printing Inks". Its most important points are:

The GMP/MGA Guideline is part of our IMS (Integrated Management System)
A special procedure is in place for selecting MGA qualified raw materials. All ingredients of a raw material with migration potential, present in a concentration above 0,01% must be approved for food contact.
A control system renders any confusion or use of non-approved raw materials impossible.
Production takes place in separate production plants.
Retraceability of any batch to its raw material batches.
Special analysis system in quality control for contamination.
Packaging material (cans, drums, etc.) is handled like a raw material.
All primary product packaging has a special seal to help recognise any previous opening.
Employees of all relevant areas (MGA-production, sales, application technology and development) are trained on GMP at regular intervals.

2. Printers/converters

FPE realised in co-operation with CITPA a GMP for the production of packaging for food

Code for Good Manufacturing Practices for Flexible and Fibre-based packaging for Food (CITPA/FPE)

Extracts:

GMP objectives: "Designing the packaging material for compliance"

This means that the combination of :

the choice of substrates
the choice of other raw materials
the choice of substrates
the application of inks, adhesives, varnishes and other coatings
and the choice of production techniques

will be such, that protection against migration, organoleptic changes and contamination and compliance with the essential requirements is, as it were, "built into" the finished product.

GMP