Food and Beverage
M Seals designs and manufactures a range of advanced seals for demanding food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and bioprocessing environments.
Quality and compliance
We understand that your processing environment faces some of the most stringent requirements imposed by Food Contact Regulations and International Standards. M Seals makes it easier for you to meet these requirements, by providing a wide variety of approved seals, with guaranteed compliance to the most stringent standards.
Our seals are successfully used in a range of applications within the food sector, including bottling plants, breweries, food processing, and other production machinery.
The right seal for the job
Traditional sealing materials do not meet the increasing demand for compliance with food standards organisations. M Seals has developed a full range of high-performance, high-conformance food grade seals, and seals that comply with many industry regulations. This includes O-rings, PTFE seals and sanitary seals that are suitable for the application conditions, i.e., friction, chemical resistance, and temperature.
PTFE seals are flexible, chemically resistant, electrically resistant and non-stick, making them a superior choice of material for this industry. Sanitary seals are another ideal choice, providing a barrier between different parts of the equipment, ensuring that the product being processed remains uncontaminated and safe for consumption.
Case studiesCase Study
Description
Food Processing Machinery
M Seals engaged with the engineering manager at a high-profile food manufacturer, who was in search of a new seal supplier to replace their current OEM due to cost, delivery time concerns, suitability for Halal and inadequate certification of the seals.
Seals for a Cocoa Bean Milling Machine
We were asked to assist in the re-sealing of the millwheel’s centre-post. Previous polyurethane seals were inadequate for the job, not suited to the high temperatures, too hard, not flexible enough and the wrong size. Consequently, the seals were not lasting very long and causing damage to the metal sleeve.
Food Contact Regulations and International Standards
Food Regulations in the European Union
Framework Regulation on Materials and Articles intended to come into Contact with Food
Regulation (EC) 1935/2004
General safety requirements for all food contact materials and articles
Regulation on Good Manufacturing Practice for Materials and Articles intended to come in Contact with Food
Regulation (EC) 2023/2006
Requirements for good manufacturing practice for all food contact materials
Regulation on Plastics Materials and Articles intended to come in Contact with Food
Regulation (EU) 10/2011
Requirements for plastic materials intended for food contact (e.g. PTFE, UHMWPE)
Food Regulations in GermanyBfR (Federal Institute for Risk Assessment)
Recommendations on Food Contact Materials
BfR XXI
Requirements for rubber
BfR XV
Requirements for silicones
Food Regulations in the United States of AmericaFDA , CFR Title 21
(Food and Drug Administration, Code of Federal Regulations)
FDA CFR 21 § 177.2600
Rubber article intended for repeated use
FDA CFR 21 § 177.1550
Perfluorocarbon resins
Food Regulations in the People´s Republic of China
National Food Safety Standards (Regulations)
GB 4806.1-2016
General safety requirements for food contact materials and articles
GB 4806.6-2016
Food contact plastic resins
GB 4806.7-2016
Food contact plastic materials and articles
GB 4806.11-2016
Food contact rubber materials and articles
GB 9685-2016
Use of additives in food contact materials and articles
3-A Sanitary Standards Inc.
3-A® Sanitary Standard for multiple-use rubber, Number 18-03
Material and serviceability requirements of rubber materials intended for multiple use as product contact surfaces in the production of milk and milk products
NSF International Standards
NSF 51 - Food equipment materials
Purpose of the standard: establish minimum food protection and sanitation requirements for the materials used in the construction of commercial food equipment.
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