With no international standards currently in place, laboratories operate in silos, using different methods and approaches. As a result, the industry lacks a shared picture of what substances are actually present across the PET value chain, creating gaps in food safety knowledge and making it harder to identify potential risks early. Greater consistency in testing methods can help close these gaps, but it is a means to a broader goal: building the evidence needed to make better-informed food safety decisions.
GeNi breaks down these barriers by providing a neutral, centralised hub for interlaboratory data. By bringing testing data together, the initiative enables the industry to benchmark testing performance, identify best practices, improve comparability and support greater harmonisation of testing approaches.
The urgency for this collaboration has never been greater. With hundreds of substances in plastics under increasing scrutiny from regulators, consumers and NGOs, while recycled content targets continue to rise, the PET industry faces mounting challenges in traceability, risk assessment and compliance. A clearer, collective picture of what substances are present can help the industry act earlier and more effectively.
