Commission Regulation (EU) No. 10/2011 on Food Contact Materials (PIM Regulation)
The Commission Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 on plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food, also known as “Plastics Implementation Measure” (PIM) was issued on 14 January 2011. This regulation unifies and revises all former EU provisions on plastic materials designed for food contact.
The new PIM regulation applies throughout all 27 EU member states in an identical wording, i.e. no national deviations are permissible. It becomes applicable on 1 May 2011. However, a number of provisions only apply from 2013 or 2016 on.
The PIM regulation contains a number of changes to the former food contact law, e.g. with regard to migration tests and testing simulants. EFIBCA provides two tables with a compilation of the most important changes in the new PIM Regulation:
- A comparison of simulants for migration testing
- A comparison of old and new testing simu-lants according to food categories
Declaration of Compliance
According to article 15 and annex IV of the above regulation a written declaration of compliance shall be made available for plastic materials and articles, products from intermediate stages of their manufacturing as well as for the substances intended for the manufacturing of those materials and articles at the marketing stages other than at the retail stage. The German Association for Plastics Packagings and Films (IK) has prepared a standard form for declarations of compliance according to the renewed regulation and made available to EFIBCA members.
A “declaration of compliance” form can be downloaded here.
