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Simplifying food safety:
easily find food contact compliant
additives

Safety and regulatory compliance are important criteria when you choose from our products. For you – and for us - fulfilling norms and regulations is a moral mission. That’s why we want to ensure you with safe products to use in food contact applications.

Choose our additives with confidence and benefit from a holistic package of tools that will assist you in your ingredient selection from Clariant’s additives portfolio. You will rely on:

  • Data proving product safety
  • Region-specific safety information
  • A sustainable, people-focused approach

Your benefits with the food contact offering

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An easy way to
select food contact-
safe products
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Increased confidence
in using Clariant
additives in food
contact applications
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A sustainable, people-
focused approach
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Reliable regulatory
information and
tests results from
our experts
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A direct contact
point to ask for
additional products
information

A three elements package to meet safety standards and ease your ingredient selection

We have screened our additives for coatings and tested their compliance with the most relevant worldwide regulations, standards and recommendations. Our triple food contact offering gives different ways of using the information we compiled. Three elements that differ in their level of granularity and complexity, they complement each other and are designed to meet our customers’ diverse needs.

  • The interactive selection tool is the online support that provides regularly updated information
  • The selection guide offers a standardized solution in an overview table format
  • Food contact reports add in depth regulatory and product insights
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INTERACTIVE SELECTION TOOL

Filter by regulations and find compliant additives

- Get direct access to product pages
- Regularly updated product and regulatory information

FOOD CONTACT REPORTS

Detailed information about one specific product

  • Available on each product page of our food contact portfolio
  • detailed regulatory information such as Substance Migration Limits (SMLs).
  • List all compliance requirements
  • Complement selection tool and overview table with in-depth information

Overview table with all additives at a glance

  • Find out which additives meet your requirements in terms of safety and regulatory compliance with food contact rules
  • Compliance tested with the most relevant worldwide regulations, standards and recommendations
  • Convenient overview of our most popular products and where they comply with official provisions
  • Standardized solution for everyone

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Deliver quality products to the end consumer

We support you in fulfilling regulatory requirements

Regulations were specifically selected by our experts and further testing are being run to add additional products to the existing portfolio of additives.

In the regulatory overview, you will find, among other regulations:

  • BfR recommendations
  • Regulation EU 10/2011
  • Title 21 – Food and Drugs - of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
  • China GB 9685-2016: Standard for the uses of additives in food contact materials and articles.

The selected products belong to four main application areas:

  • Emulsifiers for binder synthesis
  • Wetting and dispersing agent
  • Raw material for further coating additives (thickener)
  • Processing aid (coatings)
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Added values at a glance

  • An easy way to select food contact-safe products
  • Increased confidence in using Clariant additives in food contact applications
  • A sustainable, people-focused approach
  • Reliable regulatory information and tests results from our experts
  • A direct contact point to ask for additional products information

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