Hi all
Hopefully this is the correct forum for the question.
I would like to know what your thoughts on the Accreditation of Drinking Straws should be. As far as the BRC is concerned, this is a Consumer Item - but please consider the following:
The intended use for the straw is to drink from a container. For this purpose, we assume the container is sealed and the straw is used to pierce the container to get the liquid out.
The liquid is a food stuff, therefore is BRC Food.
The container is used to hold the food stuff, so therefore would be High Care Packaging.
The straw in this case would be penetrating the High Care packaging and being used to drink the food stuff - so should this straw not be held to the same standards as the High Care Packaging?
It seems nonsensical to allow the straw to meet only the Consumer Standard when the intended use of the straw means it should maintain the same standards as High Care Packaging.
Can someone shed some light onto this please?