Food Contact Testing, Quality, Certification, Sustainability Solutions

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food contact specialists

One partner for everything that touches food.

The food-contact defect rate more than doubled in early 2026. Somewhere between the factory and the shelf, more products are shipping with risks nobody caught in time.
We bring testing, supplier performance, global market access and sustainability into one practical launch plan, so what touches food is proven before it ships.

_{2.2% → 5.5%}

The food-contact workmanship-defect rate more than doubled in early 2026.

_{19% → 48%}

The share of defects serious enough to halt a shipment nearly tripled year to date.

_{10x & 100x}

A defect caught at the factory gate costs about 10x less than after shipment, and 100x less than a recall.

_{Source: BVCPS quality data}

Every one of these numbers is a defect that made it too far down the line. Here's how we catch it earlier.

Our Solution

Solutions built around every food contact product category.

A simpler way to manage risk, quality, market access, and sustainability performance.

Food contact products sit between material science, production quality, market rules and sustainability expectations. The work gets easier when a team can see what to test, what to control and what to prepare for each market, before launch pressure builds.
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Product & material scoping

We shape the plan around the product

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Key services
Scope by material and food type
Use condition and product family
Claims and destination markets
Risk mapped before testing starts
Testing

We test the risks that matter for how the product is actually used.

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Key services
Overall and specific migration
NIAS, extractables and leachables
PFAS, BPA, phthalates, PAAs and metals
Sensory, food-zone and durability checks
Supply chain & product quality

We strengthen supplier performance before quality problems reach shipment.

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Key services
Supplier capability assessment
Incoming material and in-line checks
Product verification and CAPA follow-up
Supplier scorecards and trend visibility
Regulatory & market access

We turn regional and international food contact rules into a clear route to market.

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Market and material requirement mapping
Testing and documentation plans
Declarations, labels and technical files
Multi-market launch gap review
Sustainability

We support sustainability progress while food safety holds.

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PPWR and packaging readiness
Recyclability and recycled-content support
PFAS-free material verification
Reuse, compostability and traceability checks

The BV difference:
Connecting quality, sustainability, supply chain resilience and performance into a stronger path for long-term value creation.

Your program runs on one operating model. A finding at one supplier becomes action at the next, so problems get caught before they repeat.

Unified
governance

One operating model and one standard across regions and tiers, in place of fragmented, multi-standard approaches.

Risk-based allocation

Testing, inspection and audit directed to the highest-risk suppliers and categories, so spend follows the risk.

Supplier
tiering

Suppliers segmented by risk and value, so each tier gets the right level of attention and oversight.

Continuous
improvement

Audit and test findings become action plans that raise supplier capability quarter over quarter.

Digital
dashboards

Performance across the whole supplier base in one view: scorecards, trends and alerts in real time.

_Result
What a connected program tends to return
_+20%	_-4%	_15–25%
Gains in factory efficiency and asset utilization	FOB cost reduction from quality, waste and process improvement	Lower energy consumption in production

For appliances, food-contact is only half the job.

Powered, heated, connected or water-contact equipment needs more than migration testing. We bring food-contact evidence together with appliance safety, EMC, wireless, cybersecurity, energy and market access, coordinated as one program.

Food-Contact Testing Food zones and water-contact parts, migration and extractables, metal, elastomer, gasket and coating risks, cleanability and sensory.	Electrical & Electronic IEC, EN and UL safety routes, EMC and RF, plus battery, power and energy-efficiency needs.
Connected Products Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, SRD, IoT and smart-home testing, OTA and interoperability support.	Product security Cybersecurity and vulnerability testing, so connected appliances can be trusted.
Energy & Environment Eco-design, Energy Star power, RoHS, REACH and WEEE.	Approvals & Market Access GMA, CB reports, CE marking, NRTL/SCC, GS/Bauart and regional type approvals.

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Bureau Veritas for Food-contact products

One partner for everything that touches food.

2.2% → 5.5%

19% → 48%

10x & 100x

Solutions built around every food contact product category.

The BV difference:Connecting quality, sustainability, supply chain resilience and performance into a stronger path for long-term value creation.

Unifiedgovernance

Risk-based allocation

Suppliertiering

Continuousimprovement

Digitaldashboards

What a connected program tends to return

+20%

-4%

15–25%