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Slide 1: Food Packaging Suppliers: What to Consider When Choosing Food Packaging Suppliers 12/14/11
Slide 2: Food Packaging Suppliers When you select a food packaging supplier, you must evaluate the company’s competencies and experience based on strict criteria. Food packaging suppliers must be well versed in regulatory requirements to protect the public. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has compiled extensive regulations to which all food packaging suppliers must adhere. Suppliers must also balance end user protection with 12/14/11 safeguarding a product’s branding.
Slide 3: Food Packaging Suppliers FDA’s complex and extensive regulations ensure the safety of the food the public consumes. Understanding governmental food packaging regulations help prevent costly lawsuits and potentially damaging media inquiries. There are many serious consequences of falling 12/14/11 short of regulatory compliance.. First,
Slide 4: Food Packaging Suppliers How Do Food Packaging Suppliers Understand Regulation? The sheer volume and complexity of food packaging regulations is daunting to even the experienced supplier. However challenging, the supplier must understand current regulations thoroughly, and keep up with new all new and revised governmental regulations. 12/14/11
Slide 5: Food Packaging Suppliers Evaluating Food Packaging Suppliers A competent food packaging supplier must still have an understanding of regulation to best evaluate a supplier’s regulatory expertise, analytical capabilities, testing procedures, quality measures and more. To begin a successful partnership, companies 12/14/11
Slide 6: Food Packaging Suppliers Evaluating Food Packaging Suppliers Qualified food packaging suppliers will make understanding FDA regulations a top priority. This commitment is necessary given regulatory complexity. High performance requires significant financial investment as well. The supplier must have the appropriate packaging equipment and infrastructure to best meet requirements. 12/14/11
Slide 7: Food Packaging Suppliers The following questions represent a good starting point for your selection process: What specific regulations affect the materials you’ll be purchasing from the supplier? What level of testing has the supplier performed on these materials? 12/14/11
Slide 8: Food Packaging Suppliers The following questions represent a good starting point for your selection process: What processes are in place to ensure quality? Does the infrastructure house the most advanced manufacturing equipment? 12/14/11
Slide 9: Food Packaging Suppliers These questions represent a starting point when selecting food packaging suppliers. Just as regulatory compliance is complex, so is the evaluation process; however, you need to be sure you get the best partner on-board to help ensure end user safety and the long-term viability of your brand. 12/14/11
Slide 10: About the Author Jim Boley is VP of Business Development at Flexpak Corporation, a world-class supplier of custom thermoforming and packaging solutions since 1974. For more information about food packaging, please visit http://www.flexpakcorp.com/foodpackaging today. 12/14/11