Freshline^® MAP declaration of quality

Current and proposed European legislation requires that foods, including gases supplied to the food industry, have to meet increasingly rigorous standards to ensure food safety. Gases are used for a variety of purposes in the food industry, which may include being used as additives, processing aids and ingredients. In particular they have to meet requirements regarding labelling, purity criteria and hygiene.

Air Products has been providing the UK and Ireland with gas-based equipment, products and services to the food and beverage industry for more than 40 years

Quality Pledge

Through a strict regime of internally and externally audited management systems, our gases meet and often exceed national and EU requirements for food quality, hygiene and traceability.

All of Air Products' European operating groups are certified to ISO 9001, which includes a documented HACCP ensuring that there are sufficient critical control points in the production and distribution process to avoid contamination of gases.

The system incorporates compliance with the following EU Regulations:

• Food Safety – including Regulation (EC) 178/2002
• Food Hygiene – including Regulation (EC) 852/2004
• Food Additives – including Regulation (EC) 1333/2008 and (EU) 231/2012
• Materials in Contact with Food – including Regulation (EC) 1935/2004

Freshline® certificate of conformity and full traceability

As a specialist supplier of MAP gases, we are pleased to report that we exceed the current quality and traceability legislation. All of our Freshline® cylinders come with a certificate of conformity (CoC) →

Each Freshline® cylinder has full traceability through a unique batch number placed on the cylinder which allows for it to be traced back to the Air Products depot where it was filled.

Easily identified food-grade gas cylinders

Our Freshline® gas cylinders have a distinctive painted guard and body colour (purple and green) for clear and easy differentiation from industrial products (blue-lilac), and easy to understand product names e.g. Freshline® 30% CO₂ in Nitrogen.

Safety and quality built in

Air Products Freshline® cylinders have a tamper proof shrink wrap system on the valves, which contains the certificate of conformity and batch number. All our cylinders are fitted with a residual pressure valve for superior hygiene and robustness.