Specifies hygiene requirements for the formulation, manufacture, use and handling of lubricants which, during manufacture and processing, can come into incidental contact (e.g. through heat transfer, load transmission, lubrication or the corrosion protection of machinery) with products and packaging used in the food, food-processing, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, tobacco or animal-feeding-stuffs industries.

This International Standard specifies hygiene requirements for the formulation, manufacture, use and handling of lubricants which, during manufacture and processing, can come into incidental contact (e.g. through heat transfer, load transmission, lubrication or the corrosion protection of machinery) with products and packaging used in the food, food-processing, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, tobacco or animal-feeding-stuffs industries. Included in this document are registration criteria that can be used to assess conformance with this International standard for lubricants with incidental product contact (see AnnexB). It is not applicable to substances used as product additives or to those in direct product contact (see AnnexA), but confines itself to hygiene without addressing occupational health and safety matters. Nevertheless, it is considered essential that where occupational health and safety is associated with the processes concerned it be considered along with hygiene so that measures satisfying the needs of both can be taken.