Substance Regulations
Check each packaging material with a declaration on file against the PPWR heavy-metals ceiling and the PFAS restrictions on food-contact packaging, and see which materials clear and which fall out of compliance.
PPWR caps the combined level of four heavy metals in any packaging and restricts PFAS in food-contact packaging sold into the EU. Compliance Manager assesses the material data behind your packaging against those limits, so here is what you get.
How Z2 helps
Every packaging material with a declaration on file assessed against the PPWR substance limits.
Each material returned Affected, Not Affected, or Noncompliant.
Compliance status at every level of the product and its packaging.
FMDs, CoCs, and packaging declarations behind every assessment.
Z2-led campaigns collect the packaging FMDs and CoCs you are missing.
Notified when a material crosses a PPWR substance limit.
See how Z2 assesses your packaging for PPWR.
See a demoBOM assessment
Upload the packaging on your BOM and see each material checked against the PPWR heavy-metals ceiling and PFAS restrictions at once.
Verified data
Each PPWR status traces to a manufacturer declaration in Z2, not to an assumption.
Live monitoring
Get notified the moment a packaging material crosses a PPWR substance limit, before the product reaches the EU market.
One platform
PPWR substance restrictions are one of more than 270 global regulations Compliance Manager assesses on the same BOM.
In practice
Packaging materials are assessed against the PPWR substance limits on the same BOM as your other frameworks.
One packaging material carries its PPWR, REACH, Prop 65, and PFAS status together on a single record.
Full material disclosure tests each material against the combined heavy-metals ceiling instead of assuming it.
FMDs and certificates sit behind every status, ready when a customer or auditor asks for proof.
Status rolls up from each material to the finished pack, so you release with the full picture.
Alerts flag a material that crosses a PPWR substance limit, before it reaches a customer or shipment.
Part of
automated material compliance across 270+ regulations, so RoHS, REACH, PFAS, conflict minerals, and more stay audit-ready.
Common Questions
Compliance Manager assesses packaging materials against the PPWR substance limits: the combined ceiling on lead, cadmium, mercury, and hexavalent chromium, set at 100 mg/kg across packaging and packaging components, and the restrictions on PFAS in food-contact packaging. Each material is flagged where it sits over a threshold, with the manufacturer declaration behind the call.
Statuses are drawn from Z2's records of full material declarations and certificates of compliance, with downloadable documentation attached. That evidence stays with the assessment, so you can show the basis for every Affected, Not Affected, or Noncompliant designation on a packaging material.
Z2 covers the substance and material side of PPWR: the combined heavy-metals ceiling and the PFAS restrictions on food-contact packaging. It assesses the material data behind your packaging against those limits on the same BOM as your other regulations, keeping the chemical-restriction part of PPWR documented and audit-ready. Recyclability design and recycled-content targets sit with your packaging engineering teams, and Z2 keeps the substance evidence ready to support the wider program.
PPWR substance restrictions are one of more than 270 regulations Compliance Manager assesses. The same BOM is evaluated against REACH, RoHS, TSCA, and your other frameworks in one platform, with item rollup showing status at every level of the product and its packaging.
