Vikan DoCs – proof of food-contact-safe cleaning tools

Introducing the new Vikan Declaration of Compliance

We’ve developed the new format for Vikan DoCs specifically with you as a food producer in mind. It gives you an easy-to-read overview of the compliance status for each Vikan product intended for contact with food.

Food contact usage and food contact types
All the legally required items mentioned above are, of course, covered in Vikan DoCs. But I particularly want to highlight the information Vikan provides about food contact usage and food contact types.

This information is very important. If any plastic article is not used as intended with regards to temperature, duration of contact or types of food products, it might release some amount of harmful chemicals into your food products. This could then result in contamination, and an expensive recall that would have serious impacts on your company’s commercial credibility and brand reputation.

Important information, easily available
The food contact usage time and temperature shown on the DoC tell you how long you can use the plastic article in contact with food, and at which temperature.

Vikan DoCs make it extremely easy for you to find this key information about where and how to use Vikan products. There is a tick box for each of the different food types. A tick in all the boxes means you can use the product in contact with food products of all types.

We provide a DoC for each individual Vikan product, featuring a photo and an individual description. This makes it easy to recognise the DoC applicable for each particular plastic article your company is using, and get information about the appropriate regulatory compliance and food contact usage. 
Furthermore, you will always be able to quickly and easily demonstrate compliance at food safety inspections and third-party audits.

We always keep Vikan DoCs up to date so you can present them at food safety audits and be confident that they comply with the latest versions of any appropriate regulations. 
Vikan monitors every change to the (EU) 10/2011 plastics regulations and each Vikan DoC is updated as soon as we have ensured compliance with any new amendment. 
This means that when new substances or specific restriction limits are added to Annex I or Annex II in (EU) 10/2011, we include those in our migration tests if such items are present in the material.

The new features in the Vikan DoCs mean you can be sure your food processing setup:

• Is compliant and up to date
• Describes the right usage conditions for any plastic articles you might use in contact with food products
• Satisfies the appropriate authorities and auditors by providing an easy overview of each individual plastic article’s compliance, in an appropriate language.

Vikan DoCs are now available in eight languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Swedish and Danish). This helps you evaluate and use the documentation in a language most familiar to you, and helps prevent misunderstandings about the right food contact use for the specific plastic article. it also makes it easier to provide local regulatory bodies and food safety auditors with appropriate documentation about your company’s compliance with these important mandatory regulations.

You can download Vikan DoCs individually or in bulk. A bulk download is easy using the item numbers for the plastic articles for which you need a DoC, and only requires a login.
Please go to our website www.vikan.com and try yourself.