Essential support in food safety and compliance

Tetra Pak is a pioneer within food safety, and has extensive experience and deep expertise in this area. Underpinning Tetra Pak’s food safety agenda is a world-class food science laboratory in Stuttgart, Germany. The site ensures optimal food safety for all of our solutions that come into contact with food, as well as our customers’ products. In 2024, we celebrate the decades-long history of this essential support while looking towards the future of food.

Why is food safety assessment so important?

Food safety and compliance is essential for all Tetra Pak solutions that come into contact with food, so how do we ensure that they meet the necessary standards? It takes time, dedication, and attention to detail, as well as awareness of the wider challenges and coming regulations. Our experts talk you through this thorough process in this film.

Why is food safety assessment so important?

Food safety and compliance is essential for all Tetra Pak solutions that come into contact with food, so how do we ensure that they meet the necessary standards? It takes time, dedication, and attention to detail, as well as awareness of the wider challenges and coming regulations. Our experts talk you through this thorough process in this film.

Raising the bar in quality

As pioneers in food safety technologies, we enable our customers to deliver safe, high-quality products and continue to raise their own quality standards. Our aim is to guarantee the safety of all products and services across our processing and packaging systems and comply with the most widely recognised international food safety regulations.

The heart of food safety in
Tetra Pak

Our food safety ambitions are specified in our Food Safety Policy which defines the requirements and ways of working in food safety for everyone at Tetra Pak. Our implementation guidelines and procedures break down the policy to concrete processes and defined roles and responsibilities for each function. Our Stuttgart hub ensures all our packaging and materials in food contact comply with existing and emerging regulation and that it’s safe for use.

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Learn how to optimise your chilled products’ shelf life

From raw materials through to processing and packaging, many factors influence the shelf life of chilled liquid foods. Read our experts insights

eBeam technology

eBeam technology

Electron beam (eBeam) sterilization technology has the potential to deliver significant environmental benefits and cost savings for food & beverage producers.

Keeping food safe and nutritious

Keeping food safe and nutritious

How can a carton keep food safe, full of flavour and bursting with nutritional value for months on the shelf? With an innovative approach to sterile packaging

How can you benefit from our portfolio of packages?

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Aseptic packaging and technology

Our aseptic packaging protects food without the need for preservatives or refrigeration, securing quality and safety across the entire value chain while making safe food available to more of the world’s growing population, even in remote areas.

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Chilled packages

Whatever your chilled liquid food or beverage, we have a flexible packaging solution to suit. Our three distinctive shapes are available in a broad range of formats and volumes, and all packages offer optimal safety, versatility and functionality.

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Food packages

Tetra Recart® is an innovative solution for keeping shelf-stable foods safe and protected. Perfect for vegetables, soups, ready meals & more, our food carton packages come with the added advantage of convenience and simplicity, while meeting the highest safety standards.