FOOD SAFETY INFORMATION and ensure that: • ‘All articles, fittings and equipment with which food comes into contact are to be so constructed, be of such materials and be kept in such good order, repair and condition as to minimise any risk of contamination’. • Regulation EC 1935/2004[3] - Framework Regula tion on materials and articles intended to come into contact with food. Establishes the general principles governing the safety of all materials and articles intended to come into contact with foods both directly and indirectly and ensures compliance with GMP. Materials approved within this Regulation will be labelled with the ‘Glass & Fork’ symbol, shown below, and • Regulation EC 2023/2006[4] - Good Manufacturing Practice for materials and articles intended to come in contact with food. Requires businesses to have documented systems which apply to all sectors and to all stages of manufacture. These both state that under normal or foreseeable conditions of use materials must not transfer their constituents to food in quantities that: • endanger human health • cause an unacceptable change in the composition of the food • cause a deterioration in the food’s organoleptic characteristics. • Regulation EC 10/2011[5] (and recent subsequent amendments) - Plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food. Plastic materials and articles coming into contact with food may transfer toxic substances to them. Regulation 10/2011 establishes specific require ments applicable to the manufacture and marketing of plastic materials and articles that: • are intended to come into contact with food; or • are already in contact with food; or • which can reasonably be expected to come into contact with food. These materials and articles and parts thereof may be composed: • exclusively of plastics; • of several layers of plastics; or • of plastics combined with other materials, i.e., plastic layers in multi-material multi layer materials and articles but only the substances included in the Union list set out in Annex I of the Regulations may be intentionally used as monomers, other starting substances and additives in the manufacture of plastic materials and articles. PLASTICS AND EPOXY RESINS USED IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF FOOD INDUSTRY CLEANING EQUIPMENT For the purpose of Regulation EC 10/2011 ‘plastic’ means the macromolecular compounds obtained by polymerization, polycondensation, polyaddition or any other similar process from molecules with a lower molecular weight or by chemical alteration of natural macromolecules. Epoxy resins, also known as polyepoxides are a class of reactive prepolymers and polymers, which contain epoxide groups. Epoxy resins may be reacted (cross-linked) either with themselves through catalytic homopolymerisation, or with a wide range of coreactants including polyfunctional amines, acids (and Vikan A/S - Department of Research & Development 02Copyright © 2015 Vikan A/S · All Rights Reserved
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