The BRCGS Packaging Materials certification program specifies the product safety, quality and operational criteria for the manufacture of packaging materials that are used in the production of, and filling operations for, food, hygiene-sensitive consumer products (including cosmetics), raw materials, and other consumer products. The requirements are also intended to apply to:
• Prior operations (e.g. production of packaging materials for conversion or printing)
• Operations that are supplying packaging material from stock where additional product processing or repacking occurs; this has been demonstrated to require the same level of control as a final/integrated conversion operation
• The manufacture and supply of other materials that are unconverted or semi-converted and used or incorporated (e.g. coatings and adhesives), where this is based on a risk analysis and mutually agreed between those involved
