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Chroming plastic parts for the food industry

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I am producing several hundred plastic ABS parts that need a metallic finish. They will be used in the food industry so they need to be FDA approved. Can anyone suggest a process similar to chrome plating / metallising.

These parts are going to be produced in China.

Stuart Bell
gush - Australia

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It depends what type of environment are the parts going to be exposed to? Acid fruit juices, onion, garlic, vinegar, salt?

Guillermo Marrufo
Monterrey, NL, Mexico

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Nickel and zinc plating are both accepted by the FDA

Jeffrey Holmes, CEF
- Spartanburg, South Carolina

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I hope to heck the FDA has a program where they charge the manufacturer to evaluate a product and get a seal, much like UL does, but I doubt it.

Nothing jingoistic here, everyone is welcome to compete on fair ground; but for American mfgrs to be taxed to pay the cost of the FDA bureaucracy's evaluating Australian designed products from Chinese factories is a bit much :-)

Ted Mooney, P.E.
finishing.com
Brick, New Jersey

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