Certified home compostable
Hand applied compostable fruit labels
Environmentally concious fresh produce hand labels.
A fresh produce labeling solution for environmentally conscious businesses. Sinclair—T50 is a ‘Finished Products’ certified compostable paper label designed to break down in a home compost environment. Leaving no harmful residues behind, the label will disintegrate and biodegrade to become part of usable soil-enriching compost.
Available in different shapes and sizes, it can be personalized to your brand and retail requirements. It is supplied on a small roll to make handling and labeling applications quick and easy.
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Key features
Certified end-of-life performance
The finished label construction is certified home compostable becoming part of usable soil enriching compost within 365 days.
Safe for direct food contact
Compliant with international food safety standards for safe for direct contact with all fresh produce.
Easily dispensed
Easily dispensed and applied by hand from a small roll based on your requirement.
Compliant
Meets French home composting standard NF T 51-800 and certified for home composting.
Durable yet compostable
Decomposes in compost but durable enough to withstand the rigors of the packinghouse, shipping and retail display.
Wide variety of shapes and sizes
Available in a wide variety of shapes and sizes to match your brand needs.
Label with care for the future
Our labels provide an environmentally conscious choice and an opportunity to minimize packaging waste
Technical specification & compliance
| Certifications | TUV AÜSTRIA OK compost HOME TA8022105858 |
| Certification type | Home compostable ‘Finished Products’ |
| Label material | Paper |
| Meets European EN 13432 compost standard |  |
| Meets French NF T 51-800 compost standard | |
| Label warranty | 6 Months |
| Meets FDA & EU food-safety compliance regulations | |
Hand labels Frequently Asked Questions
The label material is a paper material. It is a virgin material, meaning it does not contain any recycled material, this is important for food-safety requirements. No plastic based material is used in the manufacture of the label and the label meets French home composting standard NF T 51-800.
Not at this time. We provide our hand labels in 3-inch cores standard, some applicators can be converted to work with this size. Contact us with your requirement and we will be happy to help.
The number of labels per roll depends on label size, we can provide customization for most order requirements. Contact us with your requirement and we will be happy to help.
All of our fruit labels the label meet all EU and FDA food safety requirements for direct contact onto fresh produce.
We pride ourselves on our extremely high standards for food safety and quality. As regulations change, we are seeing an increase in demand for supplier questionnaires and corresponding food safety requests. We are committed to supporting our customer’s food safety programs and to do so we provide our customers a Quality Assurance and Food Safety (QAFS) and Declarations of Compliance.
A fruit label is manufactured using 3 components – adhesive, face stock and inks. If each component is certified compostable, when combined to create a new product construction, it does not automatically mean they will all behave the same way in the composting process as when they were separate components. Combining or “stacking” components in layers can inhibit or change the composting performance.
‘Finished Products’, “intermediate materials” and ‘Components’ certifications use the same testing and verification methodology, but ‘Finished Products’ certification is considered the ‘Gold Standard’. It clearly demonstrates that no part of a finished product has an adverse environmental impact in the composting process.
To meet the certification requirements a fruit label must pass testing for:
- Heavy Metals and Fluorine (2-3 weeks)
- Disintegration (must be within 6 months)
- Biodegradation (must be within 365 days for home composting and within 180 days for industrial composting)
- Plant toxicity, cress and barley (2 weeks)
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