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Responsible for the content:
Initiative PVC-free Closures
c/o !Wir: Kommunikation und
Unternehmensberatung GmbH
Frau Dagmar Schumann
Mühlenkamp 4
22303 Hamburg / Germany
tel.: +49 40 279 24 02
fax: +49 40 270 39 75
email: dagmar.schumann@wirkomm.de |
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High performance for food safety
No more migration issues
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Interactions between packaging and foodstuffs are nothing new. In
ancient times, many wealthy Romans suffered from chronic lead poisoning because
the acidic wine dissolved the toxic heavy metal from the glazing of wine
amphorae.
Packaging should not be as dangerous today as it was, however the topic
“migration” is still an on-going debate for sealants of metal closures. So
far PVC-based sealing compounds contain phthalates or other plasticizers that
are added to the formulation to increase elasticity and workability and optimize
from nature based inherently hard and brittle materials. The downside: These
soft making additions are not included in the plastic and are easily removed by
grease or liquids. This is how they migrate from the packaging into the filled
goods. The EU identified this migration issue at an early stage and included
article three of the framework regulation 1935 / 2004 which specifies that
materials and articles in contact with foodstuffs are not allowed to induce
health hazard, any unacceptable change in the composition of the foodstuffs and
any deterioration in the organoleptic characteristics. This directive can only
be achieved with PVC-free materials. |
PROVALIN® is a
registered trademark of ACTEGA DS, Bremen
BLUESEAL® is a registered
trademark of PANO, Itzehoe
PROVALIN®.
The PVC-free Solution by ACTEGA DS.
www.provalin.com
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