Stephen Klump

Head of Global Packaging Safety

Nestlé Packaging Safety and Compliance

EURO CanTech

Birmingham, UK June 2013

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1 – Challenges

2 – Nestlé Packaging Safety & Compliance Initiative

3 – Food Cans for Packed Product

4 – BPA in Food Packaging

Outline:

1. Challenges

Passion for Consumer Trust

Consumer trust

…about the

performance

of the

product…

…versus the

communicated

promises

is the level of confidence

consumers have…

Food Contact Material supply chain is complex

PACKAGING

MATERIALS

Raw materials -Monomers -Antioxidants -Colorants -Pigments -Solvents -UV stabilisers -Slip agents -Resins -…

Paper and board industry

Adhesives suppliers

Printing machines

Plastic Producers

Glass suppliers

Can suppliers

Ink suppliers

Converters

Nestlé

Chemical

industry

Retailers

Consumers

Co-packers

Complexity can lead to Packaging Issues

• Mineral oils in jute sacks (1991)

• BADGE from metal coating (1996)

• Mineral oils from printing paperboard (1997)

• SEM, ESBO from metal closures (2003)

• ITX from UV-printing (2005)

• BPA from PC and epoxy lacquers (2008-...)

• Benzophenone from printing inks (2009-...)

• Mineral oils from printed/recycled paper (2010…)

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It takes years to build trust and fidelity in brands and products

It only takes seconds to destroy that trust

2. The Nestlé Initiative

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Define what were the root causes:

1 - Lack of knowledge

2 - Lack of monitoring

3 - Insufficient partnerships

Nestlé’s corrective actions:

Nestlé’s Response to Packaging issues

1 - Launched the Packaging Safety & Compliance Initiative

2 - Increased bilateral discussions with main suppliers

3 - Increased participation in industry group conferences

and conventions

What is the Goal of the Nestlé Packaging

Safety and Compliance Initiative?

To prevent packaging safety

and compliance incidents

(including recall of product)

due to safety and compliance failures.

A - Supplier Assessment

focusing on pack safety aspects

The Nestlé initiative reinforces packaging

safety and compliance

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C – Certificate of Compliance

with information on substances

D - Surveillance Plan

identifying & assessing the

potential risks

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E – Technical Supplier Partnership

1. Industry Group partners

2. IoPP/FSAP in USA

3. Food Cans for Packed Product

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Functional Barrier

• Chemical compounds can migrate from the food

packaging into the food

• Except if you use a material which is a barrier to

chemical migration

– known as a Functional Barrier

• A Functional Barrier: reduces the migration of

chemical compounds below a specific migration

limit (SML)

• Absolute Functional Barriers:

• Glass,

• Aluminum foil 7µm

• Metal Cans

Functional Barrier

Nestlé uses a lot of Cans

The first product from Nestlé was

infant formula in a metal can.

Metal Packaging – Food Cans

• Metal packaging is a good way to preserve,

store and transport food

• The metal is a barrier to chemical migration.

• There can be a coating on the inside of the

metal to protect against corrosion

• This coating typically has Bisphenol-A (BPA)

based epoxy coatings - the standard coating

used in the food industry.

• Components from this coating

can migrate into the food -

including BPA.

4. BPA in Food Packaging

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Metal Packaging – Food Cans

• Consumers are concerned about BPA due to

negative media attention

• BPA has been banned in various countries in

various packaging formats – metal cans, metal

lids, polycarbonate bottles…

• Nestlé believes that BPA is safe to use in metal

can coatings, but our consumers do not want

BPA in their packaging.

Metal Packaging – Food Cans

• Nestlé started the phase-out of BPA several

years ago

– Already completed for infants’ and childrens’ food

and where regulations exist.

• The phase-out of BPA will take several years

more to complete

• The move out of BPA has included moving to

non-metal can packaging for some applications

Metal Packaging – Food Cans

Going Forward:

• Nestlé has been focused on Packaging Food

Safety for many years

• Packaging Food Safety is now on the radar

screen of the public

• non-BPA coatings for metal packaging is the

direction the food industry is moving.

– Because the food industry wants to continue to

pack food in metal cans.

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Email: stephen.klump@nestle.com