Quality First International offers packaging and packaging waste scientific, quality and technical services, including guidance and composition, reusability, recyclability and recoverability to help producers and extended producers comply with the UK and EU regulations.

Whether your products are supplied in primary, secondary, tertiary or shipment packaging, our specialists can assist in characterising packaging accurately, considering packaging presentation. We can advise regarding any restricted or excluded packaging according to The Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations 2015 UK SI No. 1640, helping to ensure your point-of-sale, service, e-commerce or composite packaging fulfils composition, reusability and recoverability essential requirements. We are adept in defining the necessary safety hierarchy and establishing packaging waste state-of-the-art, thereby ensuring packaging unit, type and format obligations are complete. Our technical specialists can evaluate – or as necessary – produce requisite safety and reliability engineering analyses on your packaging, compliant waste hierarchy and assess packaging performance according to applicable standards.

We specialise in robust product packaging waste strategies to ensure client conformity to relevant conformity assessment elements, eg, Annex IV Regulation (EU) 2025/40. Drawing on QFI internal strengths in our environmental waste management programme which is also available to the medical device industry, we are equally proficient in supporting procedures providing configurable medical device custom-made packaging exclusion versus contact-sensitive type complementary requirements set out by the medical devices regulations both in the UK and EU, respectively.

QFI can devise suitable conformity assessment implementing programmes to suit a client, as well as conducting detailed compliance inspections and conformity assessments according to applicable regulations and standards, drawing on nearly 30 years’ experience covering hundreds of manufacturers.

We produce fully-compliant technical documentation according to the regulations, applicable safety codes and standards as well as any superial and complementary legislation.

Our specialist teams can provide support on ad hoc, project- or externally-provided or outsourced basis, to suit the needs of our clients.

We produce high-level and deep packaging waste hierarchy strategies and sustainability plans based on the latest life-cycle thinking, thereby supporting a producer’s engineers and developers on the relevant elements throughout the entire packaging and packaging waste life-cycle.

Wherever your packaging travels, QFI’s specialist services can help in assuring its conformity is assured!