Lebensmittel kommen vor ihrem Verzehr mit vielen Materialien in Kontakt. Diese so genannten Lebensmittelkontaktmaterialien (FCM) sollten ausreichend inaktiv sein, damit ihre Bestandteile weder die Gesundheit der Verbraucher noch die Qualität der Lebensmittel beeinträchtigen.
Graphische Papiere, Verpackungspapiere, Hygiene-Papiere und Spezial-Papiere sind die Hauptsortengruppen der Papiererzeugung. Jeder nutzt sie täglich in vielfältigen Varianten, doch wie werden diese produziert?
Food comes into contact with many materials before its eventual consumption. These so called Food Contact Materials (FCMs) should be sufficiently inert so that their constituents neither adversely affect consumer health nor influence the quality of the food.
Within the framework of the European "Green Deal", ambitious goals are being pursued to protect the environment and in particular to protect the oceans, some of which have already been implemented in the form of directives.
Paper based packaging materials for food and consumer goods are highly demanded by end customers as well as by distributing companies. In many cases one or multiple coating layers enable the packaging to protect e.g. food via barrier functionalities.
