Posted By Elizabeth Ashford
Good afternoon

I am appealing to any forum users who have experience or knowledge within the area of food packaging.

I work for a printing company who are looking into a project to print the packaging for chocolate boxes. We are not food packaging printers first and foremost.

I am wondering if anyone could advise me on how to approach this project from a health and safety point of view. Obviously food safe inks are paramount and keeping a designated working area clean etc.

Where do I start? is there any specific codes of practice?

Any advice would be grately appreciated.

Thank you


Elizabeth

Posted By Jason Gould
Hi Elizabeth

I was applying for a job earlier this week at an aiport catering company and heres what I picked up on.

HACCP = Hazard analysies critical control points or something similar.

Basically I think this is a food standard that all food suppliers work towards which part of it entails, the auditing of suppliers of packaging and those suppliers audit their material suppliers etc.
I am not very clued on th subject as you may guess but a google search led to some interesting documents on the subject.

For yourselves I don't think their is much difficuly especially if you are already doing a ISO standard of sorts (9002 etc)

Hope this helps

Regards Jason

Posted By Elizabeth Ashford
Thanks for your reply Jason.

Regards

Elizabeth