BoFood MH Series
Migration harmless
BoFood MH is an offset printing series which was especially developed for the safe printing of primary food packaging.
It offers the highest possible safety product wise for the printer as well as the final customers and is therefore superior to all other offset printing series.
This series meets product wise all three requirements on food packaging. These are: Scent reduced, swelling reduced and migration reduced/harmless
BoFood MH inks are migration harmless as the absorbing and therefore potentially migrating components are foodstuff or food additives themselves.
This means that in contrast to traditional low migration systems they show absorption and therefore a physical drying. Typographical they are therefore clearly superior to the classical low migration systems.
In addition BoFood MH inks fulfil all legal requirements. The safety guaranteed ink wise reaches the final user through the packaging. Even by-products of potential migrants which can form during metabolism in the human body are completely harmless.
The requirement of scent reduction calls for binding agents which do not comply with the common demands for rub resistance. Therefore dispersion varnishing is strictly necessary for all printing jobs with BoFood MH.
The principal application is mainly the printing of primary packaging for flavour sensitive filling.
| Properties: | |
|---|---|
| Scent reduced: | yes |
| Swelling reduced: | yes |
| Migration harmless: | yes |
Due to these properties all requirements towards total migration (< 60 ppm) as well as the specific migration (< 10 ppb) for non-evaluated substances can be fulfilled product wise. A barrier coating in order to comply with the legal demands of the regulation 1935/2004 EC is not necessary product wise.
| Mineral oil free: | yes |
| Absorption: | yes |
| Primary food packaging: | appropriate |
| Dispersion varnishing: | necessary |
Conformity with 1935/2004 EC
The confirmation of an independent institute in regard to conformity of printing with BoFood MH inks is available.
Fastness properties:
| Item no. | Light | Transp. | Spirit | Nitro | Alkali | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BoFood-MH-Euro-Yellow | 97045 | 5 | + | + | + | + |
| BoFood-MH-Euro-Magenta | 97046 | 5 | + | + | + | - |
| BoFood-MH-Euro-Cyan | 97047 | 8 | + | + | + | + |
| BoFood-MH-Black | 52637 | 8 | - | + | + | + |
+ property given, - property not given
High concentrated mono pigmented mixing system
There is a high concentrated mono pigmented mixing system with 15 basic inks (→ colour chart) for the big variety of special inks which are required in packaging industry.
This technical instruction sheet is designed for your information and reference. It is based on and conforms to our current knowledge. However as actual application is affected by many factors over which we have no control, we are not liable for printing failures.