Many packaging manufacturers are currently working at full speed to ensure the supply of food, important medicines and medical devices during the coronavirus pandemic.
So now the IK Industrial Association for Plastic Packaging emphasised that packaging is essential for supplying the population with safe food, protective equipment and medicines, for example. Their production must therefore be „systemically relevant“ be categorised.
The systemic importance of food and pharmaceutical packaging as well as packaging for medical devices must be recognised. for future decisions restrictions on employees' freedom of movement, quarantine orders or business closures should be taken into account. For employees in these companies, a Emergency care in daycare centres and schools possible across the board be. Official proof that Employees part of the critical infrastructure The aim was to enable production employees in particular to continue working at all times.
In order to guarantee the supply of food and pharmaceutical packaging as well as packaging for medical devices in Europe, the following should also be considered Transport with this packaging and its raw materials at the border crossings Fast lanes can use.
France is already leading the way
France has its Food industry including manufacturers of food packaging already as „Priority industry“ categorised. The IC has asked the German government and the responsible crisis management team to classify packaging in Germany as „integral part and system-relevant products in connection with measures to Containment of the coronavirus pandemic“ and thus categorise them as „critical services“ in the context of the Ordinance on the Identification of Critical Infrastructures in accordance with the BSI Act.
Source: IK Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen
