The German buyer wants LFGB: FDA and CE will not fill food-contact materials

Bottom line:

When a German buyer asks for LFGB, LFGB § 31 points to Article 3 of 1935/2004. There is no German bureau that sells a food-contact pass paper by shipment.
A lab migration report is evidence. FDA and CE stay in their own boxes. Opening the store does not run the test.
Labs quote by material and contact conditions. There is no site-wide official euro price.

The inquiry says: “Need LFGB certificate / food grade.” Sales staples an FDA registration, a CE and a Chinese “food grade” note. The buyer replies that there are no migration conditions and no declaration of compliance. The shop floor asks whether to buy another LFGB paper or print a fork-and-glass mark on the carton.

US facility registration sits on FDA. EU conformity sits on CE. SVHC sits on REACH. This page only splits food contact.

1. The paper they want is not sold by a German bureau

LFGB prohibits placing on the market consumer articles that can harm health, and food-contact materials that fail Article 3 of Regulation 1935/2004. The regulation requires materials that, in normal or foreseeable use, do not endanger health or change food unduly. Specific material groups also need a declaration of compliance. There is no window that sells an LFGB pass paper by shipment.

They write	What it actually is	After opening the HK store
LFGB certificate	Migration evidence for this use + a declaration where the regulation requires one	None. An intermediary PDF will not log
FDA food contact	A US food-contact path	Will not fill a German / Union declaration
CE	Applicable Union product conformity	Not the food-contact declaration itself
REACH	SVHC in an article	Keep it apart from migration conditions

First ask whether this article is food contact: a knife, a board, a cup, a gasket is; a luminaire housing usually is not. Retitling a cup migration report for a charger will be asked to match the product name.

2. The report is for this article and this use, not “our factory passed”

Migration conditions sit on temperature, time, simulant and contact area. A supplier’s “whole factory food grade” will not cover a new coating, silicone or ink. A trading-company mixed container is harder still.

A Hong Kong company signs. The mainland shop floor builds. Materials still follow the report. You have to produce the material, the contact conditions, the report number, and the declaration where it applies, matching the invoice and the sample.

Labs quote by material and conditions. There is no site-wide official euro price. Do not lock an “official LFGB fee” into the unit price.

3. FDA and CE will not fill this box

FDA food contact is a US path. Registration is not approval, and it is not a German food-contact declaration. CE answers applicable product legislation, not the 1935/2004 declaration itself. REACH asks about SVHC. Three boxes.

4. A usable reply

They write	A usable reply	Do not write
Send LFGB certificate.	Germany has no central body that issues a food-contact pass paper by shipment. We will send a migration-report summary for this article and use, and a declaration of compliance where the regulation requires one.	Retitle FDA or CE.
You have FDA, so LFGB is done.	FDA is a US path. Germany sits on LFGB and 1935/2004. They can sit together. They do not substitute.	FDA means the whole food-grade pack.
Put LFGB / food grade on your store.	Without a matching report and declaration, the showcase will not say certified or food grade.	Write it first so inquiries convert.
How much is the official LFGB fee?	There is no site-wide official euro price. Tests quote by material and conditions. Opening the store does not include it.	Lock an “official certification fee” into the unit price.

Do not write “LFGB passed” or “food-grade certified” on a showcase. You can say the seller is a Hong Kong company, that food-contact materials take a report and a declaration under the regulation and German law, and that the file stays apart from FDA, CE and REACH.

5. If you already replied “we have LFGB”

Tell sales the same day: prices that say “certified / food grade” stop.
Open this German order: is it food contact, do they want the report or the declaration, and what temperature and time will be used.
Keep FDA, CE and REACH as their own papers.
Match the material and the lot. Do not hand the master account to an intermediary to “make a certificate.”
If the goods are already moving: send a matching report. Do not invent a number.

The membership still buys the file and the showcases. Wire it to ALIBABA.COM HONG KONG LIMITED. Corpable does not run the test or sign the declaration. What market surveillance asks for follows their process that day. Do not write a penalty figure into the contract.

Questions teams actually ask

Is an LFGB certificate something you buy from Germany?

No. LFGB is the German Food, Feed and Consumer Goods Code. Sections 30 and 31 prohibit placing on the market consumer articles that harm health, or food-contact materials that fail Article 3 of Regulation 1935/2004. There is no window that sells an LFGB pass paper by shipment.

If we have FDA / CE, can the goods enter Germany?

No. FDA food contact is a US path. CE is applicable Union product law, not the food-contact declaration itself. Retitling a cookware FDA file will be answered with a request for migration conditions and a declaration of compliance.

Is a lab report the LFGB certificate?

The report is evidence, not a German bureau pass paper. Regulation 1935/2004 also wants a declaration of compliance for specific material groups. An expired report, or conditions that do not match real use, is not there.

Does opening Alibaba.com on a Hong Kong company already give us LFGB?

No. The membership buys showcases. It does not run migration tests or sign a food-contact declaration. A Hong Kong letterhead will not fill a material recipe.

May the showcase say “LFGB passed / food grade”?

Not without a matching report and declaration. Labs quote by material and contact conditions. There is no site-wide official euro price. Writing “certified” will be screenshotted back when they ask for the report.

Can Corpable file LFGB, or guarantee a German order will open?

No. An advisor can sit with you on whether they want the migration report or the declaration. We do not test, sign the declaration or promise market surveillance. Membership still wires to ALIBABA.COM HONG KONG LIMITED.