After its enactment on 11 February 2009 by the EU Standing Committee and its publication in the Official Journal of the EU(L135) on 30 May 2009, the new “Regulation (EC) No. 450/2009 of the EU Commission from 29 May 2009 regarding active and intelligent materials and objects which are intended to come into contact with food” came into force on 19 June 2009.
The Federal Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (BMELV) has taken up this issue and invited the affected industrial associations to a discussion on 24 February 2010.
For the past several months, Hammer GmbH has implemented the exclusive use of mineral oil-free offset printing inks. The motive for these measures was the current discussion regarding foodstuffs contaminated by mineral oils.