Plastic water bottles sold on Amazon require food contact certification because they may be used to hold drinking water or other food. France's DGCCRF (Direction Générale de la Concurrence, de la Consommation et de la Répression des Fraudes) is France's General Directorate for Competition, Consumption and Combating Fraud, responsible for ensuring that goods on the market comply with relevant French and European regulations and standards.


For food contact products such as plastic water cups, sales in France do need to comply with the testing and certification requirements of DGCCRF. Therefore, if your plastic water cup is to be sold on Amazon France, then conducting DGCCRF testing is in compliance with regulatory requirements.


French DGCCRF regulations have special requirements for plastic products in contact with food. Plastic water cups, as one of them, need to pass specific testing items to evaluate their safety. These tests may include:

1. Comprehensive migration test: Evaluate the total amount of chemicals that may be released into food during the use of plastic water cups.

2. Primary aromatic amine testing: Primary aromatic amines in some plastics may be harmful to the human body, so testing is required to ensure that their content is within a safe range.


In addition, the DGCCRF test standards also require that when products come into contact with food, they cannot release ingredients that are dangerous to human health, cannot cause unacceptable changes in the ingredients of the food, and cannot reduce the sensory properties of the food, such as taste, Smell, color, etc.

For food contact products exported to France, including plastic water bottles, in addition to complying with the relevant EU regulatory requirements, they also need to comply with local French regulatory requirements, that is, they need to pass the testing and certification of the French DGCCRF.