Food and Beverages Packaging

Food Package Testing

Food Package testing or Package testing (also commonly known as distribution testing or pre-shipment testing) is the recreation of real life supply chain physical and climatic hazards, under controlled conditions in the testing laboratory environment.
It is a physical test for pharmaceuticals and food and the chemical tests are performed to describe correctness of Food Contact Materials (FCM). It is necessary by protocols for food and beverages, for pharmaceuticals, medical devices, dangerous goods, etc. This may cover the design qualification, periodic re-testing, and control of the packaging processes. These procedures may be controlled by various quality management systems such as HACCP, validation protocols, statistical process control, ISO 9000, etc.  Testing measures the effects and interactions of the levels of packaging, the package contents, and the external forces.