Food Packaging Sustainability & Contact Materials Testing

Food packaging not only needs to look good, it also has to protect product safety and integrity throughout the supply chain. Our comprehensive food packaging analysis and integrity testing service ensures your food packaging is fit for purpose.

Our dedicated packaging team understands the multifaceted demands of packaging, it not only represents your brand identity, provides critical label information but also leaves a lasting impression on consumers. At the same time, the need for innovative sustainable packaging solutions presents its own unique challenges.

With extensive expertise, cutting-edge facilities, and advanced testing techniques, we offer a comprehensive service for packaging analysis and food contact materials testing. Our focus extends beyond visual appeal, ensuring your food packaging serves its intended purpose while upholding the highest standards of quality and safety at every stage. We will work with you to align your packaging choices with your sustainability goals instilling consumer confidence in your commitment to the environment.

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By choosing RSSL as your trusted food packaging testing and analysis provider, you will benefit from our industry leading expertise and comprehensive suite of food packaging testing and analysis services covering all your needs in a collaborative partnership:

Compliance and safety: ensuring your food packaging materials meet global safety standards and regulatory requirements with packaging analysis, protecting consumer health and mitigating potential risks.

Non-intentionally added substances (NIAS) screening analysis: identifying and quantifying substances that may unintentionally migrate from packaging materials to the food product, ensuring safety and compliance.

Overall migration and specific migration testing: evaluating substance migration from packaging materials to food and conducting specific migration tests for individual compounds to meet regulatory requirements and ensure consumer safety.

Shelf-life extension and evaluation: gain valuable insights into the suitability of your packaging and food packaging quality control for your product ensuring optimal quality, safety and consumer satisfaction. We can provide rigorous evaluation of your product across its proposed shelf life, confirm shelf-life as well as maximise effectiveness and provide confidence over your maximum shelf-life giving you a competitive edge.

Off-flavour and taint identification: we will help you identify the source of chemical taints and off-flavours from food packaging ensuring your products remain free from undesirable odours or tastes.

Physical evaluation and testing:
1. Barrier protection: gain a thorough understanding of your packaging materials, barrier properties and packaging integrity by assessing factors like aroma, water vapour, oxygen permeation to ensure preservation of quality and freshness
1. Mechanical strength and integrity: evaluation of the properties of packaging material including ease of opening, seal integrity and strength, and puncture resistance. We perform overall packaging integrity testing of food packaging materials to ensure they can withstand the demands of the supply chain
1. Material evaluation: physical testing and structural evaluation to assess the suitability of chosen packaging materials for your product with considerations for compatibility and packaging sustainability

Sustainable packaging solutions: we are here to support you on your journey to move to more sustainable packaging

Our comprehensive packaging and packaging material analysis service will provide you with the insights needed to make well-informed decisions for your packaging success. Take your next step towards packaging excellence and consumer confidence. Contact us to discuss your requirements or to find out more.