Production and use of food-grade lubricants

This article is an extended summary of the report prepared by the Lubricants Subgroup of the European Hygienic Equipment Design Group (EHEDG) published in February 2002. It is the 23rd in the series of EHEDG summaries to be published in TIFS. The full report prepared by Piet Steenaard (Chairman), Henk Maas, Jan van den Bogaard, Richard Pinchin and Marcel de Boer is available from CCFRA at pubs@campden.co.uk. Information about EHEDG can be found on the website at http://www.ehedg.org. The production of EHEDG guidelines is supported by the European Commission under the Quality of Life Programme, project HYFOMA (QLK1-CT-2000-01359).