Requirements check
Food-contact products
IMPORTANT CAVEAT: the EU Food Contact Materials framework — Regulation 1935/2004, the plastics regulation 10/2011 and GMP Regulation 2023/2006 (glass/fork symbol, declarations of compliance, migration testing) — is the primary regime and is beyond this dataset; flag as 'additional sector rules apply'. The UK has retained equivalent FCM law overseen by the Food Standards Agency. US: food-contact substances are regulated by the FDA (21 CFR parts 174–190); the article itself remains a consumer product for general hazards, so us-cpsa-general stays listed. Prop 65 enforcement on lead and cadmium in ceramic and glass tableware is intense — test decorated ware. Children's tableware triggers CPSIA lead limits and testing in the US. Electric items that touch food (kettles) belong in household-appliance. Food or health claims about the product's contents are food law — out of scope.
United Kingdom (GB)1 instruments
The general safety net for consumer products in Great Britain: no producer may place a product on the market unless it is safe, and producers and distributors must monitor products and notify authorities about unsafe ones. In Northern Ireland these Regulations were superseded on 13 December 2024 by the EU General Product Safety Regulation (EU) 2023/988.
Key obligations
- 01No producer shall place a product on the market unless the product is a safe product (regulation 5) - one which under normal or reasonably foreseeable conditions of use presents no risk, or only the minimum risk compatible with the product's use.source
- 02Producers must provide consumers with the relevant information to enable them to assess the risks and take precautions, and enable traceability by indicating the producer's name and address on the product or its packaging.source
- 03Producers must monitor marketed products: sample-test them, investigate and where necessary keep a register of complaints, and keep distributors informed of the results.source
- 04Distributors must act with due care to help ensure only safe products are supplied and must not supply products that, as a professional, they know or ought to know to be dangerous (regulation 8).source
Documents you will need
Deduplicated across everything above
- Traceability and monitoring recordsNo declaration of conformity or technical file is required. Producers should be able to evidence traceability (name and address on product or packaging), sample testing, complaint investigation and, where necessary, a complaints register.source
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