FDA-Compliant Sealing for Food-Safe Process Environments
From CIP/SIP cycling to direct food-contact applications – material compliance without compromise.
Food and beverage processing places sealing materials at the center of product safety and regulatory compliance. Every seal in a fluid-contact or product-contact application is a potential contamination point — and the documentation to prove it isn’t starts with material selection.
PRP supplies FDA 21 CFR Part 177-compliant elastomeric seals for food processing, beverage production, dairy, and brewing applications. Our standard material portfolio for this market includes EPDM and platinum-cured silicone for direct food-contact service — both offer broad chemical compatibility with cleaning agents, thermal stability across steam-in-place cycling, and documented compliance with applicable food-contact regulations. FKM compounds are specified where oil-based or fatty-acid-containing process streams require resistance beyond silicone’s capability. PTFE-encapsulated seals are used in direct-contact applications where the base elastomer’s compliance profile or surface characteristics are not sufficient.
Regulatory and certification alignment:
FDA 21 CFR Part 177.2600 (rubber articles), 3-A Sanitary Standards, NSF/ANSI 61 where applicable, EU Regulation 10/2011 for European food-contact compliance.
PRP can supply food-contact compliant elastomeric seals with full material traceability and compliance documentation — lot-level certificates, 21 CFR conformance records, and the supplier qualification data your HACCP program requires. Sourced to specification, documented to standard.
