Glass packaging

 

National legislation

Regulation on Health Suitability of Materials and Articles Intended to Come into Direct Contact with Food

Official Gazette, No. 125/2009 and 31/2011 
 

Act on General Use Good (see Article 49, point 2.)

Official Gazette, No. 39/2013, 47/2014, 114/2018 and 53/2022

 

Competent authority

 

Scope of application

Glass packaging in contact with food

 

Main requirements that the business user needs to know about

Article 111

Glass packaging (bottles, jars etc.) must be made from homogenous glass material.

Surface of the inside of the glass packaging must be smooth, and the top edge of the opening of the neck of such packaging must not be sharp or damaged.

Glass packaging, after standing in acetic acid, 4% (v/v) during 24 hours at the temperature of 22 ± 2°C, expressed for 1L, must not release:

1. more than 0.05 g of lead;
2. more than 0.005 mg of cadmium;

Article 112

Bottle caps which are on their inside covered with cork or other permitted material envisaged by this Regulation, and do not come into direct contact with the food, can be made from at least 98% pure aluminium.

Bottle caps from paragraph 1 of this article made from aluminium must not contain more than 0.7% of silicon, manganese, magnesium and titan, more than 0.8% iron, more than 0.1% copper, or more than 0.1% of zinc.

Cap used to decorate the neck of the bottle with a cork stopper must not be made from an alloy containing lead.

Article 113

Glass packaging (bottles etc.) can se closed with stoppers made from unused cork. Testing of cork stoppers is carried out over the course of 10 days at the temperature of 23°C in direct contact with a model solution comprising 15(v/v%) of ethyl alcohol and 3(v/v%) of acetic acid, so that the corked bottle is turned upside down, and the level of the model solution is 1 cm from the bottom of the bottle. For bottles with volume larger than 500 mL, the testing is performed using 500 mL of model solution. Evaporated residue must not be greater than 50 mg/L.

Content of lead, cadmium, arsenic, copper, zinc, tin and iron in the obtained extract from paragraph 1 of this article is determined, in accordance with the requirements for wine in accordance with allowed values for content of metals in wine.

Article 114

Glass wool must not be used in making glass packaging.

Glass packaging whose glass material turned opaque (matt) after an 1 hour sterilization experiment carried out at the temperature of 121°C is prohibited.

Article 115

Glass packaging which is used for packaging wines and various beverages containing carbon dioxide must be able to withstand interior pressure of at least 500 kPa, and siphon bottles must be able to withstand interior pressure of at least 1000 kPa.

Article 116

In addition to materials envisaged by the regulations on the quality of alcoholic drinks, beer, non-alcoholic beverages and syrups, mineral water and soda water, heads of siphon bottles may also be made from special aluminium alloys resistant to carbon dioxide.

 

Market Surveillance Authority

State Inspectorate

pisarnica.dirh@dirh.hr

 

Link to the TRIS database

In the TRIS database you can look up the notification of the technical rule