Food Packaging Safety Compliance Auditing

Service summary

An assessment of controls affecting the safety and suitability of food-contact packaging. The audit examines how intended use, material specifications and contamination risks are addressed through supplier and manufacturing controls.

The service supports technical oversight of packaging-related risk. Conclusions rely on available documentation and operating evidence; migration testing, material approval or a regulatory food-contact declaration is not issued through this audit.

Key objectives

• Assess intended-use documentation
• Examine material and contamination controls
• Evaluate traceability and change management
• Identify packaging safety evidence gaps

Methodology

Selected food-contact packaging is traced from intended-use specification through material control, manufacturing and release evidence.

• Define packaging types, food-contact uses and applicable criteria.
• Review specifications, declarations and supporting safety or test documentation.
• Select materials, production runs and relevant changes.
• Observe handling, segregation and contamination prevention practices.
• Trace material identity and release evidence for selected batches.
• Evaluate change approvals and responses to safety-related complaints.
• Report findings and distinguish missing evidence from tested conformity.

Key outcomes

References: [G04]

• Packaging safety control report
• Intended-use evidence assessment
• Traceability and change findings
• Unresolved safety documentation gaps