LFGB, FDA and CPC: Matching Silicone Specifications to Your Market
Food-contact and child-safety requirements differ by destination market. Here is how we plan material and testing routes before sampling starts.
Silicone is a broadly versatile material, but "food grade" means different things in different markets. Buyers in the United States typically work to FDA requirements for food-contact rubber articles, while Germany and much of Europe look for LFGB, which includes sensory testing alongside migration limits. Children's feeding items and toys add their own layers, such as EN1400 for feeding articles and CPC or EN71 for products aimed at children.
Because these routes lead to different materials and different documentation, the destination market belongs at the start of a project rather than at the end. When you tell us the country of sale before sampling, we can fix the silicone grade, pigment system and testing plan early, instead of reworking a sample that already passed an internal check.
In practice we match the specification to the market, arrange the relevant third-party testing through accredited laboratories, and provide test reports with the shipment so your compliance team has the documents it needs. If your retail customer has its own specification sheet, send it with the inquiry and we will review it against our process before quoting.
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