Packaging

The European legislation on the safety of food packaging has faced considerable changes in recent years due to the increased awareness that an unsafe packaging can be responsible of product contamination. This trend has been confirmed with the EC Regulation 1935/2004 and the subsequent EC Regulation 2023/2006, which introduced new and more stringent requirements on hygiene and food safety for the food packaging industry. Science4Life offers a team of highly specialized figures in the science of materials able to satisfy the complicated European legislation on packaging and, at the same time, to choose packaging solutions suitable for the kind of product and sustainable for the food company. Our experts carry out mainly the analysis of the problems related to the materials used for packaging and research alternative and innovative packaging solutions, focused on customer needs, also by designing new packaging systems. Consulting on the evaluation of benefits and risks coming from the used packaging, as well as on the optimization of its production costs, are also provided.