Commitments related to the manufacture and supply of packaging inks

Siegwerk fully supports food safety within the areas under its control. This commitment covers all products manufactured or marketed for application to the non-food contact surface of food packaging materials and articles.

Siegwerk’s commitment comprises of the following principles laid down by the European Printing Ink Association (EuPIA):

• the principle of placing consumer safety first;
• compliance with relevant legislation currently in force and the resultant legal requirements in order to ensure a high level of consumer safety;
• the principles of transparency and information sharing to enable compliance within the packaging supply chain, whilst preserving appropriate commercial confidentiality and respecting competition law rules;
• the supply of products fit for the intended purpose as mutually defined between each company and its customers;
• the concept of risk and exposure assessment in accordance with internationally recognized scientific principles;
• the principles and implementation of Good Manufacturing Practices, including audit processes;
• the principle of continuous improvement in consumer safety in the light of any new scientific findings; and
• following EuPIA crisis management procedures, or equivalents, in the event of an incident related to a food packaging ink.  

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Siegwerks Statement of Composition

Siegwerk Statement of Composition (SoC) provides the information needed by the converter to fulfil the demands as laid down in Annex IV of Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 on plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food (Plastics Regulation), and in section 8b, Art. 26i of the Ordinance of the FDHA on Materials and Articles (RS 817.023.21; „Verordnung des EDI über Bedarfsgegenstände“), with its Annex 6, “Lists of permitted substances for the manufacture of packaging inks, subject to the requirements set out therein”, in their up-to-date state. 
A Statement of Composition will be provided to our customers upon request for delivered inks.

For further information on regulatory background and Siegwerk’s underlying assumptions for the worst-case calculation, please download the Annex to Siegwerk’s Statement of Composition here.