ELGI – NLGI Food Grade Lubricants Working Group - Articles and news items

Food Grade Lubricants supplement 2013

Issue 1 2013, Supplements / 26 February 2013 / Dr Hilde Kruse, Helen Bahia, Knuth Lorenzen

This free to view Food Grade Lubricants supplement is sponsored by Petro-Canada, FUCHS LUBRITECH, CASSIDA food grade lubricants, Anderol Specialty Lubricants, Klüber Lubrication, Molykote, FRAGOL, LUBCON, Bel-Ray and CPI Engineering Services:

• Dispelling the myths surrounding food grade lubricants
  Sarah Krol, Managing Director, Food Equipment & Nonfood Compounds, NSF International
  Despite the increasing number of food processing and food packaging facilities now using food grade lubricants, a surprising level of confusion exists around the use, labelling and regulations pertaining to these specialty lubricants. This article explores and dispels several common ‘myths’ surrounding food grade lubricants and explains how end-users can effectively make the most of these unique products in their facility operations…
• Certifying food grade lubricants as halal
  Kamarul Aznam Kamarozaman, Editor, HalalMedia.net
  Within food processing, food grade lubricants used in machinery poses one of the biggest concerns for both manufacturers and consumers as contact with food, either incidental or otherwise, would compromise its level of food safety standards…
• Food Grade Lubricants Roundtable
  Manjesh Babu (Market Manager, Food Processing Industry, Klüber) / Heiko Engelke (Managing Director, Lubricant Consult GmbH) / Phil Grellier (Global Marketing Manager, Industrial Assembly and Maintenance, Global Molykote® Brand Manager, Dow Corning Corporation) / Eduard M. Stempfel (Global Product Manager and Application Specialist, Fuchs Lubritech GmbH). Moderated by Andre Adam (H1 Global Food Lubricants Workgroup Chair, ELGI)

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Food Grade Lubricants Supplement 2012

Issue 4 2012, Supplements / 5 September 2012 / Andre Adam, Pete Martin

This free to view Food Grade Lubricants supplement is sponsored by Petro-Canada, FRAGOL, Klüber Lubrication, Fuchs Lubritech, Cassida Lubricants, Thermo Scientific, Anderol and OKS:

• H1 food lubricants in the industry
  Andre Adam, H1 Global Food Lubricants Workgroup Chair, ELGI3
• The new Food Information Regulation – what impact will it have on your business?
  Pete Martin, Head of Trading Law (EMEA) NSF International

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Food grade lubricants and the ELGI – NLGI

Issue 4 2008 / 3 December 2008 / Anuj Mistry, TLP Development Manager, Bel-Ray Company, Inc. and Chairman of ELGI- NLGI Food Grade Lubricants Working Group

Lubricants to be used in the production, processing, packaging and distribution of food, beverages, pharmaceuticals, personal care products and any other ‘clean’ products may be registered as meeting certain criteria that make them safe for use in these industries. A lubricant qualifies as food grade when, in the event of contamination, it is present in no more than 10 milligrams per kilogram of the foodstuff in question. It must also not cause any physiological hazard or affect the food’s odour and taste in any way.

Food grade lubricants are special blends of base fluids and additives and should be approved by the US FDA and registered by NSF International (in USA) and more recently by InS Services Ltd (in Europe) in the H1, HT1 and 3H category. ‘Food grade’ is the most common term used to describe such lubricants, however, lubricants are only considered to be food grade if they are ‘classified’ as such by independent organisations such as the NSF and InS Services. (more…)