Food service board is a high-grade white cardboard specially designed for use in the food packaging sector and produced in strict compliance with food safety regulations and standards. The main characteristic of this type of paper is that it must be ensured that contact with food does not pose any potential hazard to food or human health. Therefore, food service board has extremely strict requirements in terms of raw material selection, production process control and final product testing.
Firstly, food service board is not allowed to use raw materials containing harmful chemicals, such as fluorescent whiteners, which may migrate into food under certain conditions. Secondly, it is usually manufactured from pure virgin wood pulp and must not be made from wastepaper or other recycled materials to prevent contaminant residues.
Features
- Safety: The most important feature of food grade white cardboard is that it is safe and non-toxic, does not contain harmful chemicals, and complies with national and regional hygiene standards and regulations for food contact materials.
- Physical properties: Food grade white cardboard has high stiffness and breaking strength, which can effectively protect the internal food from external pressure, wear, and tear, and maintain good shape stability.
- Surface quality: the paper surface is flat and smooth, without spots and impurities, with excellent printing suitability for high-quality printing and coating treatment, to facilitate the display of brand information, nutrition labelling, etc.
- Environmental friendliness: Despite the stringent requirements, many foods grade white cardboards are committed to sustainable development, with FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified sources of wood fiber, reflecting an environmentally friendly philosophy.
Applications
Food service board is widely used in a variety of packaging applications that come into direct or indirect contact with food:
- Food packaging boxes: such as pastry boxes, moon cake boxes, candy boxes, biscuit boxes, etc.
- Beverage cups and containers: such as coffee cups, ice-cream cups, the inner lining or outer packaging of take-away lunch boxes.
- Fast food packing boxes: such as bento boxes, burger packing boxes, pizza boxes and other disposable catering utensils.
- Bakery products: such as cake trays, bread bags, baking paper cups, etc.
- Frozen food packaging: some low temperature refrigerated foods such as frozen dumplings, dumplings, etc. also use food service board as internal and external packaging materials.
