Plastic products exported to the EU have new regulations

“Although Europe has improved the standards for imported plastic products, as long as the quality of products is improved and brand development is emphasized, it is still possible to gain a foothold in the international market.” The exhibitors of a food and beverage export enterprise in Dongyang City, Zhejiang Province said with full confidence.

Plastic products exported to the EU have new regulations

In the kitchen and utensils exhibition area of ​​the 115th Canton Fair, the reporter talked with a number of exhibitors from exporting plastic kitchen utensils and learned that the standard of plastic meal kitchenware products exported to Europe has improved.

"The EU's new regulations on the entry of plastic products into the market have brought certain impacts on the export of plastic products to Europe. The quality standards for plastic products exported to Europe are more stringent, and the production and inspection costs of enterprises have also increased." Exhibitors of Jinxi Trading Co., Ltd. said.

Recently, the European Union issued a new regulation (EU202/2014) to amend the requirements for food contact plastic materials and products. The new revision requirements are mainly: adding two new monomers that can be used to make food contact materials; clear dicyandiamide The specific migration limit of the monomer is 60mg/kg; the limitation of the original substance 1,3-phenyldimethylamine is changed from the single migration restriction to the benzene dimethyl isocyanate together with the new substance, and the total migration amount It is 0.05 mg/kg; the restriction description and the like are updated. The new regulations will take effect 20 days after the release and set a buffer period, that is, plastic materials and products legally entering the EU market before March 24, 2014, and even if they do not meet the requirements of the regulations, they can continue to be put on the market until 2015. On the 24th, until the inventory is sold.

“Our disposable plastic cups are mainly exported to the United States, France, Japan, Australia and the Middle East. The new regulations for plastic products in the EU put forward higher requirements for the quality of plastic products. Plastic kitchen utensils are facing new challenges. We only have to continuously improve quality. In order to seize the international market." Zhejiang Province, a kitchen utensils export enterprises exhibitors said.

Quality and heavy brand can win

Faced with strict EU plastic product access standards, China's plastic kitchen utensils export enterprises should improve product quality and develop their own brands to obtain more orders. "At present, China's plastic kitchen utensils enterprise design and research and development capabilities are weak, the product technology content is low. Most of the products exported to plastic kitchen utensils enterprises are mostly sample design, less independent research and development products, enterprises in product research and development, strong dependence, independent innovation The ability is poor." Exhibitors of Zhejiang Dongyang Plastics Co., Ltd. said that in the future, China's plastic kitchen utensils export enterprises will improve the basic technology of enterprises and lay a solid foundation for the transformation and upgrading of export plastic kitchen utensils enterprises. Continuously improve the company's security technology, through the establishment of the enterprise quality management system, the preparation of laboratories, the comprehensive improvement of enterprise self-checking and self-control technology, provides an important guarantee for improving product quality. Enhance the original technology of the product, break through the conventional product design route, integrate the diversified unique elements, and take the road of original development.

In addition, "China's plastic kitchen utensils standard regulations lag, product quality inspection is not comprehensive, but also hindered the domestic plastic meal kitchen enterprises to the European market." A person in charge of the plastic kitchenware export enterprises, who asked not to be named, said, "China's big Some of the regulations concerning plastic products were formulated in the 1980s. Although in 2009, the Ministry of Health and the National Standardization Committee issued the national standard GB9690-2009 on melamine tableware, melamine-formaldehyde moldings for food containers and packaging materials. "Sanitary Standards", there are higher requirements for the testing items and indicators of this type of products, but there are still some standards for the implementation of plastic products, which cannot be comprehensively tested, thus affecting the overall quality of the products. evaluation of.