Scholle Packaging Global Certifications
Packaging Your Customers Can Trust
Numerous international organizations have recognized Scholle Packaging as an industry leader in quality and service, issuing the listed certifications. It is our priority to exceed international packaging standards and set an example for our competitors.
Scholle Packaging has a reputation of a high-quality flexible packaging manufacturer. A large part of this success is our unconditional dedication to the customer. Our customers know that we are a supplier they can rely on worldwide.
Scholle Packaging has proudly acquired the following certifications:
Asia-Pacific
ISO 22000 Food Safety Management Systems Certified:
ISO 22000 is a generic food safety management system standard. It defines a set of general food safety requirements that apply to all organizations in the food chain. Scholle Packaging has established a food safety management system (FSMS). Our FSMS has been assessed and successfully certified by ISO 22000 as being able to deliver products and service of outstanding quality to our customers.
AMS Food Safety Assured Certified:
AMS is a proudly South Australian owned and operated company. Our brand new laboratory operates from Quality House in Adelaide. AMS is NATA accredited and specializes in food and water testing. After a rigorous assessment of Scholle’s premises and random testing of product AMS issued a ‘Food Safety Assured’ Certificate to our company.
Europe
Quality Management System – ISO 9001-2000 Certification:
ISO 9001:2000 is an international standard that gives requirements for an organization’s Quality Management System (“QMS”). Scholle Packaging has been assessed to verify the conformity to ISO 9001:2000 requirements. Such compliance covers our top management commitment to quality, customer focus, adequacy of resources, employee competence, process management (for production, service delivery and relevant administrative and support processes), quality planning, product design, review of incoming orders, purchasing, processes to resolve customer complaints, corrective/preventive actions and a requirement to drive continual improvement of the QMS.
BRC/IoP Global Standard for Packaging Certified:
Originally created to establish a Standard for the suppliers of packaging and packaging materials for the food industry, this Standard is now a leading global Standard adopted by major retailers, manufacturers and packaging businesses around the world and is equally applicable to consumer products packaging producers. Scholle’s certification to the Standard verifies the company’s excellent technical performance, compliant fulfillment of legal obligations and caring attitude towards the consumer.
Latin America
GMP Certification:
Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) is a term that is recognized worldwide for the control and management of manufacturing and quality control of foods, pharmaceutical products, and medical devices.
These regulations, which have the force of law, require that manufacturers, processors, and packagers of food products, drugs, medical devices, and blood take proactive steps to ensure that their products are safe, pure, and effective. GMP regulations require a quality approach to manufacturing, enabling companies to minimize or eliminate instances of contamination, mix-ups, and errors. Scholle Packaging has been GMP certified and, therefore, diligently makes sure the end product consumers purchase is of outstanding.
HACCP Certification:
HACCP is a management system in which food safety is addressed through the analysis and control of biological, chemical, and physical hazards from raw material production, procurement and handling, to manufacturing, distribution and consumption of the finished product. Scholle packaging as a scrupulous follower of this system implements a systematic preventive approach to food safety that addresses physical, chemical, and biological hazards as a means of prevention rather than finished product inspection.
Chemical Products Control Risk Area & Edification Guidelines:
Scholle Packaging precisely follows the Brazil’s Chemical Products Control (Lei n. 10357 & Decreto n.6911) and the Risk Area & Edification legal documents to deliver the best quality to our customers.
North America
FDA Certification:
The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for protecting public health by assuring safety, efficacy, and security of the nation’s food supply, human and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation. FDA registration is required for all companies that manufacture, process, pack, or store food or beverages. The FDA Standards are considered to be the most comprehensive standards in the world pertaining to the hygienic manufacture of food packaging materials.
IMS Certification:
Manufacturers who want to claim that they comply with the highest standards in the world request to be on the IMS List. The Interstate Milk Shippers (IMS) Program is a cooperative program between the Federal and State governments that provides milk processors an opportunity to purchase single-service packaging materials from hygienic plants throughout the world. IMS certification of container and closure plants consists of complying with the FDA regulations, which are revised and updated every two years.
AIB GMP Superior Rating:
American Institute of Baking International is committed to protecting the safety of the food supply chain. Through rigorous independent inspections, superior audits and training, and shared expertise AIB empowers manufacturers to lower their business risk and strengthen their reputations.
Scholle Packaging facilities have undergone the AIB Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Food Safety Audit and has been rated “Superior” in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009.
Kosher Certification:
Plastic packaging materials are under scrutiny by kosher certification companies, who have concluded that migration of adjuvants derived from non -kosher sources into packaged food would render otherwise compliant foods unacceptable.
Scholle Packaging Products are completely safe and have a negligible level of adjuvant migration. Such high quality and safety achievement has guaranteed Scholle packaging to become Kosher certified.
Additional Certification Services
Additional services offered by Scholle include product certification documentation and regulatory compliance certificates for customer assurance requirements. Scholle’s GOSC (Global Operations and Supply Chain) group provides these documents to customers upon request. Some of the areas of documentation would be as follows:
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food Safety
• European Union Directives for food contact
• Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
• Kosher Certification
• Coalition of Northeastern Governors (CONEG)
• California Proposition 65
Scholle products and processes are also compliant with the following customer driven regulations/issues:
• HACCP Program
• Allergen-Free Raw Materials
• Silicon-Free Raw Materials
• 100% Virgin (non-recycled) Raw Materials
• BHT, BHA, Ester-Free Raw Materials
• Interstate Milk Shippers (IMS) List
A brief summary of the various regulatory certifications are noted below:
FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION (FDA)
Recognized Location(s) – United States, Europe, Australia, South America
Governing Body: US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Presiding Documentation: The United States Code of Federal Regulations
Regulation(s): “Indirect” Food Additives – Title 21 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (21CFR) Parts 175, 176, 177, and 178.
Summary: These are substances used in food-contact articles, and include adhesives and components of coatings (Part 175), paper and paperboard components (Part 176), polymers (Part 177), and adjuvants and production aids (Part 178). In general, these are substances that may come into contact with food as part of packaging or processing equipment, but are not intended to be added directly to food.
Reference: www.fda.gov
EUROPEAN UNION DIRECTIVE EU 2008/39/EC
Recognized Location(s) – European Union States
Governing Body: European Union Commission
Presiding Documentation: Treaty on European Union
Regulation(s): European Parliament and Council Directive 2002/72 EC is a consolidation of 90/128/EEC, or the Monomers Directive, and its seven amendments.
Summary: This directive establishes: An overall migration limit of 60mg (of substances)/kg (of foodstuff or food simulants) for all substances migrating from a material into foodstuffs); A positive list of authorized monomers and other starting substances, with restrictions on their use (such as specific migration limits) where applicable. Some monomers remain provisionally authorized at national level pending a re-evaluation by the Scientific Committee on Food; A list of authorized additives and for some of them, restrictions on their use (such as specific migration limits); The procedures for adapting, revising and/or completing the lists of authorized substances.
Reference: www.eurunion.org
HEALTH CANADA – CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY CFIA)
Recognized Location(s) – Canada
Governing Body: Health Canada, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Presiding Documentation: Food and Drugs Act
Regulation(s): Division 23 – Food Packaging Materials (B.23.001-8)
Summary: This Act applies to all food, drugs, cosmetics and medical devices sold in Canada, whether manufactured in Canada or imported. The Act and Regulations specify safety, compositional, nutritional and labeling requirements for food. New drugs cannot be marketed in Canada without a Notice of Compliance (NOC) from Health Canada verifying that the manufacture and sale of the new drug is in compliance with Food and Drugs Act Regulations. Medical devices, cosmetics and “old” drugs must also meet departmental safety standards. Parts III and IV of this Act involve regulations governing the sale of restricted and controlled drugs. More directly, this act requires that packaging materials not impart any undesirable substance to the food product, either chemically or physically and shall protect them sufficiently to avoid their contamination.
Reference: http://inspection.gc.ca/english/toce.shtml
KOSHER CERTIFICATION
Recognized Location(s) – United States, Australia
Governing Body: For Scholle (Northlake, Ill.), the local authority is the Chicago Rabbinical Council
Presiding Documentation: The Torah
Regulation(s): Mitzvots (Commandments that are Required for Righteousness):
Summary: For items to obtain Kosher certification they must not contain materials that are forbidden for consumption or have been processed in a manner that is forbidden by Jewish law.
References: www.kashrut.com , www.bluethread.com
COALITION of NORTHEASTERN GOVERNORS (CONEG)
Recognized Location(s) – United States
Governing Body: Coalition of Northeastern Governors (CONEG)
Presiding Documentation: Model Toxics in Packaging Legislation
Regulation(s): Entire legislation
Summary: This regulation requires reductions in the amount of four heavy metals (specifically, mercury, lead, cadmium, and hexavalent chromium) in packaging and packaging components sold or distributed in these states. The laws, which aim to phase out the use and presence of these four metals, require certificates of compliance and allow for certain exemptions (which must be approved by the individual states).
References: www.coneg.org
CALIFORNIA PROPOSITION 65
Recognized Location(s) – Unites States
Governing Body: California scientific advisory board, California Attorney General, county district attorneys, and other law enforcement officials
Presiding Documentation: The Safe Drinking Water & Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986
Regulation(s): Entire act
Summary: This is a law that prohibits businesses from discharging chemicals that cause “cancer or reproductive toxicity” into sources of drinking water, and requires that warnings be given to individuals exposed to them. Chemicals that are found to be harmful are added to a periodical list for publication.
Reference: www.calprop65.com/prop65.html
