The FDA approved Food Contact Notification (FCN) 772 on March 7, 2008 which covers several acrylate monomers for direct food contact ink, coating, and adhesive formulations.

Electron beam (EB) curing technology has long been valued in food package printing applications as a strategy for managing migration risk for food packaging applications. 

The approval of FCN 772 represents the removes a major hurdle to more freely deploying energy curable systems for direct food packaging applications.  The combination of this new standard for assessing the risk of these monomers and the inherent effectiveness of EB curing technology creates a powerful business case for the adoption of electron beam curing.

For an overview of the benefits of using electron beam for food packaging applications, check out The Changing Economics of EB Curing.