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EuPIA, Swiss Government Collaborate On Food Packaging Ink Guidelines

There is speculation that the Swiss ordinance will effectively become the standard for food packaging inks in Europe

The food packaging sector in Europe had until recently looked likely to escape the burden of legislation specifically aimed at printing inks in food packaging. The European Union (EU), whose 27 member states account for much of Western Europe and large parts of Eastern Europe, has a five-year-old framework regulation on food contact materials. But it only requires that all inks in food packaging do not endanger human health, without laying down in detail how this should be ...

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