Compliance & Testing
Food-contact compliance for ceramics: limits by market, test methods, documentation and what inspectors actually ask for.
What Does Ceramic Compliance Actually Cost a Program?
Testing is the smallest line in a ceramic compliance budget. The real money: platform specs, retest triggers, and the cost of one failed shipment.
Read articleWhat Are the UK Food-Contact Rules for Ceramics After Brexit?
The limits stayed, the marking question changed shape, and the duty story split from the EU. What a UK-bound ceramic programme needs in its file now.
Read articleIs "Food Safe" Actually a Certificate for Ceramic Tableware?
FDA approves nothing, CE is not a grade, LFGB approves nothing either. The documents that prove food-contact claims, and the five questions to ask.
Read articleHow Do You Read a Ceramic Migration Test Report Line by Line?
What each block of a migration report proves: lab identity, sample linkage, method and conditions, categories and units, results and the caveats.
Read articleHow Do Factories Actually Achieve Cadmium-Free Ceramic Tableware?
Cadmium rides into tableware on bright reds, oranges and yellows. Four routes build lines that test at or near zero, and the trade-offs.
Read articleHow Does Lead-Cadmium Testing Work, from Sample to Report?
The six steps from frozen specification to report: production samples, per-market test panels, correct categories and units, and retest triggers.
Read articleWhat Does California Prop 65 Mean for Ceramic Dinnerware Sellers?
How Prop 65 enforcement and settlements shape US ceramic dinnerware, why FDA-passing ware may still be exposed, and the three options sellers have.
Read articleWhy Do German LFGB Limits Lead the Ceramics Market?
What LFGB-scope testing covers for ceramics, where the German lead and cadmium limits sit versus US and EU numbers, and how to write it into the PO.
Read articleWhat Does EC 84/500/EEC Require for Ceramic Tableware?
The three ware categories and their lead and cadmium limits, how the 24-hour acetic acid test runs, and the CE and DoC duties 2005/31/EC added.
Read articleWhat Are the FDA Lead and Cadmium Limits for Ceramic Tableware?
FDA 21 CFR 109.16 lead limits by ware category, cadmium enforcement levels, how ASTM C738 testing works and what happens when a shipment fails.
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