PPWR Compliance & Packaging Testing Services

Ensure full compliance with the new PPWR regulation through our expert technical eco-design assessments and packaging recyclability analyses. Our specialists guide your business through volume reduction initiatives and recycled content certifications. We help you meet mandatory EU targets while transforming regulatory compliance into a strategic competitive advantage.

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Our Comprehensive PPWR Compliance & Testing Services

The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) is the new EU framework governing packaging across its entire life cycle. Its core objectives are to minimize waste, increase recycled content, and harmonize regulatory standards across all EU Member States. For packaging manufacturers and corporate users, this mandate requires balancing sustainability with strict safety protocols.

Mérieux NutriSciences supports companies in verifying data and adapting to these new requirements, ensuring robust regulatory compliance and the protection of consumer health.

Strategic PPWR Compliance Check

Through rigorous technical and regulatory analysis, we identify compliance gaps regarding current and future obligations, including recyclability, recycled content thresholds, restricted substances, and environmental labeling rules. We deliver a detailed risk assessment utilizing a clear traffic-light evaluation system to establish action priorities. This proactive approach allows you to anticipate critical vulnerabilities, ensuring market compliance, safety, and competitiveness within the EU.

Packaging Declaration of Conformity (DoC) Support

Beginning August 12th 2026, the PPWR regulation mandates that every type of packaging on the European Union market must possess its own official Declaration of Conformity (DoC). Our dedicated team assists companies in compiling these mandatory declarations and technical documentation files. We ensure full alignment not only with incoming PPWR requirements but also with overlapping packaging regulations enforced across the EU and other relevant global geographies.

Our Packaging Conformity Assessment Services

Advanced PFAS Testing & Mitigation Services

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) present significant environmental challenges and consumer safety concerns. While the PPWR stops short of an outright total ban, the regulation actively harmonizes PFAS restriction rules for packaging across all EU Member States. The framework establishes precise concentration thresholds for PFAS, evaluating both total PFAS content and individual PFAS substances.

Our analytical laboratories provide specialized guidance on PFAS testing, deploying targeted testing methodologies for your specific materials while helping you mitigate non-conforming results.

Packaging Recyclability Certification & Testing

Mérieux NutriSciences is officially recognized and approved by RecyClass as an accredited Recyclability Certification Body for plastics.

Additionally, our facilities operate as a qualified, expert laboratory for performing specialized paper recyclability testing.

Safety & Contaminant Testing for Recycled Packaging

Integrating recycled materials into packaging configurations increases the risk of unexpected chemical migration. To protect your supply chain, we conduct exhaustive NIAS (Non-Intentionally Added Substances) screenings, migration tests, and structural verifications of functional barrier effectiveness. We provide comprehensive risk assessments and technical consulting to guarantee the absolute safety and regulatory compliance of all materials containing recycled content.

Certified Compostable Packaging Testing

We support businesses in testing specific packaging materials that must be compostable under new PPWR rules, such as permeable pouches and coffee capsules. For over 20 years, our team has executed comprehensive industrial and home compostability studies alongside functional shelf-life verifications.

Packaging Minimization & Optimization Assessments

We assist manufacturers in executing packaging minimization strategies by conducting physical-mechanical resistance testing and structural thickness verifications. Our experts accurately evaluate how reductions in total packaging weight and volume impact material barrier properties and product shelf life. This testing helps you identify the ideal equilibrium between physical performance, compliance with empty-space regulatory limits, and functional design.

Environmental Labeling Compliance & Green Claims

Our regulatory experts support companies adapting to both national and harmonized EU environmental labeling mandates. We provide robust validation of green claims through objective laboratory testing, independent verifications, and comprehensive Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies.

Our LCA Services

Reusable Packaging Validation Services

We guide organizations through the verification of reusable packaging systems. Our laboratories conduct rigorous testing regimes to validate hygiene, toxicological safety, and structural performance retention across successive, repeated operational use cycles.