UV/EB inks seem to do it all, but will they ever become FDA-approved for direct food packaging?

By Missy Smith

Personally, I’m not sure how big a market there is for direct food contact UV/EB products. There are, without question, some people who are vitally interested in the success of the RadTech approach. In the grand scheme, however, water-based inks for direct food are well known, readily available, and less expensive. Putting more expensive UV/EB products on the inside of a food package (and presumably on higher cost products where their direct food acceptance is proven) seems like a niche market to me.—Don Duncan, Wikoff Color Corp.