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How do you ensure that your plastic packaging complies with requirements, protects the product, and performs as intended? On Polymer Day, you will learn about relevant methods for testing plastic packaging.

Why should packaging be tested? 

As a manufacturer or importer, you are responsible for ensuring that packaging complies with applicable requirements and is suitable for its intended use. This applies to plastic packaging for cosmetics, pharmaceutical products, and food, among other things. 

The packaging must not adversely affect the product and must also protect it during storage, transport, and use. Relevant analyses and packaging tests are therefore an important part of the documentation. 

Focus on test methods for plastic packaging 

The day provides a practical insight into how different testing and analytical methods can be used to assess the safety and performance of plastic packaging: 

  • Material analysis and elemental screening, including material identification and testing for relevant substances such as fluorine/PFAS and selected heavy metals. 
  • Migration testing to assess whether substances can migrate from the packaging and affect the packaged product. 
  • Functional packaging tests, such as transport testing, usability testing, label testing, drop testing, storage testing, and vacuum testing. 

From regulatory requirements to practical documentation 

On this day, you will get an introduction to why plastic packaging needs to be tested and how the responsibilities of manufacturers and importers relate to legislation and documentation requirements. 

Through expert presentations, a tour of the laboratories, and practical examples, you will learn how to select relevant test methods and document that packaging both protects the product and complies with applicable requirements.

Programme

  • Material analysis: What is the material made of? 
  • Content analysis, including testing for fluorine/PFAS and selected heavy metals 
  • Migration testing: What can migrate from the material? 
  • Declaration of Compliance: What should it contain? 
  • Lunch 
  • Tour of the laboratories 
  • Various packaging tests, including transport testing, label testing, drop testing, and more 
  • Case study: Special requirements for packaging

Who should attend?

Polymer Day is relevant for companies that manufacture plastics for packaging, packaging manufacturers, and producers of pharmaceutical products, cosmetics, and food. 

Registration deadline: 11 November