The safety of food contact materials and articles has, indeed, become an important part for food safety as they contact with all kinds of foodstuffs directly. In the direct contact process, various compositions could be released continuously along with the contact time extending and will lead to potential harm for foodstuffs. In order to insure their safety, food contact materials and articles should be tested completely.

The service scope of food contact materials and articles mainly includes plastic and additives, paper and board, elastomers and rubber, metals and alloys, coating, wood (including cork), varnish and paint, textile products, paraffin waxes and micro-crystalline waxes etc.

Now the testing ability for food grade materials and articles includes migration test, sensory test, heavy metal test, toxic and harmful substances examination, microbial examination and cytotoxicity test according to the standards of USA, EU (including member countries), Japan, China and other countries as well as areas.