Packaging Testing Services

Packaging testing is essential for ensuring the safety, quality, and compliance of your products in today's competitive market. With advancements in materials and regulatory standards, comprehensive testing can help you navigate the complexities of packaging development. Our expertise in packaging testing empowers businesses to achieve innovative, sustainable solutions while protecting human health and the environment. 

We understand that companies developing packaging materials face numerous challenges, including navigating complex regulatory requirements, ensuring product safety, and minimizing environmental impact. As the demand for sustainable solutions increases, businesses must balance performance with compliance while addressing concerns such as non-intentionally added substances and the longevity of materials. Our expertise in packaging testing equips you to overcome these hurdles, enabling innovation and confidence in your packaging products. We recognize that companies developing new packaging materials encounter several key challenges, including complex regulatory requirements, product safety concerns, and the pressing need for sustainability. These hurdles, along with the need to meet regulatory standards for both single-use and multi-use food contact materials, underscore the importance of thorough testing and innovative approaches in packaging development.

Food and Drink Packaging Testing
Our experts specialise in food contact regulations, including European, FDA, and other global standards. We conduct overall migration compliance testing (OML) and specific migration testing (SML). Using various analytical techniques, we assess non-intentionally added substances (NIAS) and substances of concern, such as primary aromatic amines, trace metals, PFAS, bisphenol A, microplastics, and phthalates. Through our CircularAssure program, we support the circular lifecycle of food packaging, offering chemical assessment, migration testing, support for recycling process development and recycled material certification services.

Home Care and Personal Care Packaging
Cosmetic packaging must protect the product and support the entire brand experience—non-intentionally added substances, chemical substances of concern, degradation of materials and microplastics all present challenges. We have worked with globally innovative brands to test their cosmetic packaging through migration studies. Through our CircularAssure team, we have also supported sustainable solutions for personal care, exploring materials development through processing, where recycled materials are used or incorporated into the packaging.

Pharmaceutical and Medical Packaging
Our experts have over 30 years of experience in specialised analytical and toxicology assessment for extractable leachable testing for pharmaceutical packaging. From R&D support to E&L studies from our GMP-compliant laboratories, our expertise is reinforced by our knowledge of polymer, plastic and packaging materials which underpins our ability to drive insights for you into materials' formulation, including adhesives, additives, stabiliser ingredients, and their degradation products.

Services Summary:

• Food and Drink Packaging Testing
• Food contact Migration Testing
• Non-intentionally Added Substances Testing
• Cosmetics Packaging Testing
• Extractables and Leachables for Pharmaceutical Container Closure Systems
• Adhesives Quality Assurance Testing
• Coatings Testing
• Polymers and Plastics Testing
• Microplastics Testing
• Circular Economy Support – CircularAssure
• Recycled Content
• Materials Testing
• ISTA Testing
  
  

Your Packaging Testing Partner
Bringing quality, safety, and sustainability to life, we apply our experience to support your packaging development from early-stage R&D to recycling and beyond. Our innovation-led, end-to-end Total Quality Assurance proposition helps organisations operate safely and effectively in an increasingly complex, fast-changing world.