Name: Food Contact Materials Regulations and Compliance: South Africa, the EU and the USA
Price: 2450.00 ZAR
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About Course

Your EU customer wants a declaration of compliance. Your local buyer wants a ’South African food grade certificate’. Only one of those documents exists. This food contact materials course teaches the law behind both requests for South Africa, the EU and the United States, from the primary texts.

Who it is for: technical, QA, regulatory and export staff at packaging converters, food manufacturers and exporters who approve packaging or answer customers about it. No site of your own is needed.

What you will be able to do:

Name the rules that apply to a pack in each market, by number and date.
Read a supplier’s compliance file and name each gap with the article or section behind it.
Tell a customer what South African law does and does not require, without overclaiming.
Build a compliance file per pack and keep it current.

What it covers: in South Africa, Act 54 of 1972, R638 of 2018 and GN R.879 of 2011. In the EU, Regulation (EC) 1935/2004, the GMP Regulation (EC) 2023/2006, Regulation (EU) 10/2011 as amended to 2026, recycled plastics under Regulation (EU) 2022/1616, bisphenols under Regulation (EU) 2024/3190 as corrected, and the PPWR food contact limits that have applied since 12 August 2026. In the United States, 21 CFR Parts 174 to 179 and the Food Contact Substance Notification programme.

What you take back to work: the food contact compliance file checker. It lists what each market requires for a pack, flags what is missing or out of date, and exports an Excel workbook. You also earn a QR-verified certificate.

Time and assessment: 12 hours, online and self-paced: 35 lessons in 7 modules, 24 case activities on Mzansi Pack, ASC’s training converter, with model answers, a knowledge check and a game per module, a timed and proctored final of 30 questions drawn from 65, and a practical assignment: the compliance file and covering note for an EU lidding film, or for one of your own packs. Pass mark 70 percent, three attempts, written feedback. The certificate is released once every assessment is passed and your course review is in.

R2 450, no VAT charged. Set that against one EU order refused because the supplier declaration predates Regulation (EU) 2025/351, or one lot of ready meals rejected for an ink taint, which Article 3(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) 1935/2004 treats as a breach even when every migration limit is met.

Course Content

Module 1: South Africa: Act 54 of 1972, R638 of 2018 and the 2011 BPA bottle prohibition
What South African law actually requires of food contact packaging: the outcome duties in Act 54 of 1972 and R638 of 2018, the narrow 2011 BPA bottle prohibition (GN R.879), and how to say all of this to a customer without overclaiming.

What South African law says about food contact, and what it does not
The Foodstuffs Act: package, sale and the offences that reach packaging
R638 of 2018: what the hygiene regulations ask of containers
The 2011 BPA infant feeding bottle prohibition, and how to cite it
Saying it right: what South African law does and does not require
Module 1 knowledge check
Law or myth?

Module 2: EU framework: Regulation (EC) 1935/2004, the GMP Regulation (EC) 2023/2006 and the PPWR
The EU framework, Regulation (EC) 1935/2004: scope, the Article 3 safety test, labelling, declarations and traceability. How the law reaches inks and adhesives without a Union list. The GMP Regulation with its 2025 additions, and the PPWR limits on PFAS and heavy metals that have applied since 12 August 2026.

Module 3: Plastics: Regulation (EU) 10/2011 as amended
Regulation (EU) 10/2011 as amended to 2026. Scope and definitions, the Union list and the 2025 purity rules, overall and specific migration, metals and primary aromatic amines, multi-layers and functional barriers, and how to check a supplier’s declaration.

Module 4: Recycled plastics: Regulation (EU) 2022/1616
Regulation (EU) 2022/1616 for recycled plastic. Why mechanically recycled PET cannot go into an oven or microwave tray, how processes are authorised and registered, what the container label and the declarations must show, and whether a food customer can use rPET from a new local recycler.

Module 5: Bisphenols: Regulation (EU) 2024/3190 as corrected
Regulation (EU) 2024/3190 as corrected by Regulation (EU) 2026/250. Why the EU prohibited BPA, the seven material groups it reaches, the two Annex II derogations, the transitional dates, declarations and testing. A bisphenol check on a converter’s inks, adhesives and coatings closes the module.

Module 6: United States: 21 CFR Parts 174 to 179 and the Food Contact Substance Notification programme
How US law decides whether a packaging component is a food additive, how to find a substance in 21 CFR Parts 175 to 179, how an FCN works, and the threshold of regulation, GRAS and prior sanction routes. You finish by writing a US compliance statement for a South African pack.

Module 7: Building a compliance file per pack
One pack, one file. What the file holds in each market, who keeps which documents, how to read a supplier’s file for gaps, how to keep it current, and the workshop on Mzansi Pack’s lidding film.

Assignment, final assessment and course review
Your practical assignment on your own site or on Mzansi Pack, then the final assessment. Your certificate is released when every assessment is passed and your course review is submitted.

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Course Content

What South African law says about food contact, and what it does not

The Foodstuffs Act: package, sale and the offences that reach packaging

R638 of 2018: what the hygiene regulations ask of containers

The 2011 BPA infant feeding bottle prohibition, and how to cite it

Saying it right: what South African law does and does not require

Module 1 knowledge check

Law or myth?

Regulation (EC) 1935/2004: scope and the Article 3 test

Labelling, declarations and traceability: Articles 15 to 17

Inks, adhesives and coatings: materials without a full EU specific measure

The GMP Regulation (EC) 2023/2006: what a converter must run

The PPWR from 12 August 2026: packaging law beside food contact law

Module 2 knowledge check

Law or guidance?

Scope, definitions and the amendment trail

The Union list, purity and substances used outside it

Migration limits: overall, specific, metals and primary aromatic amines

Multi-layers, functional barriers and test conditions

The declaration of compliance and supporting documents

Module 3 knowledge check

Does the declaration cover it?

Why recycled plastic has its own regulation, and the words it uses

The two suitable technologies in Annex I

Authorisation, the Union register and the transitional rule

Collection, labelling and declarations down the chain

The local rPET question: answering Mzansi Fresh Meals

Module 4 knowledge check

Recycled or rejected?

Why the EU banned BPA in food contact materials

The prohibitions and the two narrow derogations

Transitional dates after the 2026 correction

Declarations, testing and the 1 µg/kg detection limit

Bisphenols in a converter’s supply chain

Module 5 knowledge check

Allowed, banned or in transition?

How US law treats packaging: the food additive definition

Parts 174 to 179: finding a substance in the indirect additive regulations

The Food Contact Substance Notification programme: 21 CFR 170.100 to 170.106

The other routes: threshold of regulation, GRAS and prior sanction

Selling a South African pack into the United States

Module 6 knowledge check

Name the route

Module 7: Building a compliance file per pack One pack, one file. What the file holds in each market, who keeps which documents, how to read a supplier’s file for gaps, how to keep it current, and the workshop on Mzansi Pack’s lidding film.

What a compliance file is, and who holds what

Building the file: layer by layer, market by market

Reading a supplier’s file and finding the gaps

Keeping the file alive: triggers, reviews and amendments

Workshop: the lidding film file for the Netherlands customer

Module 7 knowledge check

Red, amber or green?

Assignment, final assessment and course review Your practical assignment on your own site or on Mzansi Pack, then the final assessment. Your certificate is released when every assessment is passed and your course review is submitted.

Your assignment and the course tool

Workshop assignment: the compliance file for Mzansi Pack’s lidding film

Final assessment: Food Contact Materials Regulations and Compliance: South Africa, the EU and the USA

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Module 7: Building a compliance file per pack
One pack, one file. What the file holds in each market, who keeps which documents, how to read a supplier’s file for gaps, how to keep it current, and the workshop on Mzansi Pack’s lidding film.

Assignment, final assessment and course review
Your practical assignment on your own site or on Mzansi Pack, then the final assessment. Your certificate is released when every assessment is passed and your course review is submitted.