Heavy Metals in Cosmetic Packaging: Glass, Pigments, Inks & Decorative Components
August 17, 2025
A practical guide to heavy-metal risks in cosmetic packaging, evidence scope, supplier declarations, testing and component-level specifications.
EU packaging heavy metal limits address the combined concentration restrictions for lead, cadmium, mercury, and hexavalent chromium in packaging and packaging components. For cosmetic packs, risk can sit in glass colourants, pigments, printing inks, coatings, metallic foils, collars, caps, and pump parts, so a bottle body declaration may not cover the full set. Buyers should define the packaging configuration, ask for scoped material and test evidence, and assess composite assemblies component by component. This topic covers regulatory limits, supplier declarations, laboratory reports, specification wording, and the difference between material approval, decoration approval, and finished-pack compliance.
A practical guide to heavy-metal risks in cosmetic packaging, evidence scope, supplier declarations, testing and component-level specifications.
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