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Cetie Guidelines Series – Quality and Best Practices for Bottling
The Guidelines series offers a comprehensive set of quality-focused recommendations designed to support bottlers and their suppliers in ensuring the safety, reliability, and consistency of pre-packaged products.
Developed in response to challenges raised by industry members, these documents provide practical guidance for:
- Creating technical and functional specifications for packaging components (labelling, capping, cardboard packaging, etc.)
- Implementing quality management systems, including practical approaches to ISO 9000 certification
- Maintaining hygiene and cleanliness on bottling lines, particularly for still wine and food products
- Ensuring product safety and proper inspection procedures on bottling lines
- Managing filling volumes, prepacking operations, and mobile bottling contracts
- Defining recyclability and qualification tests for closures on PET bottles and other packaging types
These guidelines serve as a foundation for harmonised practices and foster a shared understanding between stakeholders across the bottling supply chain, complementing Cetie’s technical data sheets and supporting compliance with European regulations.
Guidelines No. 1 - Practical guide for specification redaction
01/01/1988
This document aims to indicate how to write a specification for bottling components.
Its scope concerns all packaging components of packaged articles (or pre-packed), whatever is the nature of the components: wood, craft, plastic, metal,...etc.
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Guidelines No. 2 - Functional specification for labelling
01/03/1989
A bottle intended for retail sale, displayed on the shelf, or placed on the consumer's table is inconceivable without its decorative and functional packaging, which, in addition to sealing and capping, primarily consists of labelling.
Labelling serves multiple functions:
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Guidelines No. 2.01 - Pressure sensitive labelling on glass containers
01/01/2009
- Latest update 25/06/2021
This document concerns only self-adhesive labelling on glass containers. The principal objectives of the document are as follows:
To give manufacturers and users a reference document to help them carry out the operation of self-adhesive labelling and to give guarantees of security for the ...
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Guidelines No. 3 - Capping: Choice and sealing conditions for beverage bottling
01/01/1991
Design and implementation of sealing for the packaging of non-dairy food products.
We have often found that some of the problems encountered on bottling lines stem from a lack of knowledge about the characteristics of the seals used. The sealing of a container is a technical operation that ...
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Guidelines No. 4 - Cardboard packaging from the machine side
01/01/1991
This document is intended to provide a method of developing the couple packing cardboard/machine to fulfill the functional specifications. Its field of application is the combination of corrugated packaging which includes crates and cardboard cutouts spliced (trays, box Wrap-around ...). It ...
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Guidelines No. 5 - Quality control on the bottling line
01/01/1991
The objective of this document is to determine how, on a bottling line, to ensure the quality of the finished product:
Product conforms to the consumer's expectations (minimum of defects);
Optimum productivity (minimum of disruptions).
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Guidelines No. 6 - Certification ISO 9000 practical approach in the bottling industry
01/03/1993
- Latest update 06/11/2023
The ISO 9000 standards, which set out the rules to ensure quality, concern everyone involved in the industrial chain.
Should this be undertaken?
Should I be certified?
In what form should this process be undertaken?
With which standards?
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Guidelines No. 7 - Good hygiene practice on bottling lines
01/01/1995
Council Directive 93/43 of 14/06/93 on the hygiene of foodstuffs calls on professional organizations in the food industry to develop guidelines for the use of professional organizations dedicated to Hygiene.
The drafting of these guidelines must meet two requirements:
To respect the ...
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Guidelines No. 8 - Functional specification
01/01/1998
This functional specification is intended to help the establishment of contractual relations for the provision of "dry" materials to a level of quality suitable for the production constraints of the traffic jam, safety, and consumer information.
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Guidelines No. 9 - Control of the filling volumes in prepacked glass containers
01/01/1997
The purpose of this guide is to provide a benchmark for bottlers for controlling volumes.
Two different scenarios are considered:
Control by weighing (can be used with all types of bottles);
Control by level (can only be used with Measuring Container bottles).
Note that we are only ...
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Guidelines No. 9.01 - Requirements for applying the DGCCRF guide
17/03/2025
This document has been drawn up by the ‘Bouteilles Récipient-mesure Adéquation Volume Obligatoire’ - BRAVO group, which was set up by a number of trade associations in the wine and spirits industry to address the specific requirements of French regulations on the ...
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Guidelines No.10 - Safety of pre-packaged liquid foods
01/01/1999
This guide is the result of the study of a working group gathering packaging producers, packaging equipment manufacturers, and their brands/bottlers.
It does not provide "recipes" for dodging an 'obligation of result' set out in the Directives, but opens up a series of ...
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Guidelines No.11 - Inspection on bottling lines
01/01/2002
The objective of this guideline is to suggest a rational process for establishing inspection programs to assess the quality of finished products on bottling lines.
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Guidelines No.12 - Prepacking cleanliness
01/01/2004
Council Directive 93/43 EEC of the European Communities of 14/06/93, on the hygiene of foodstuffs, calls on professional organizations of food industries to develop for professional use guidelines to ensure safety and suitability of foodstuffs. In this perspective, writing a guide about the ...
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Guidelines No.13 - Mobile bottling for still wines
01/01/2006
This guide is dedicated to the drafting of standard specifications for "mobile contract bottling of still wines". The aim is to provide a tool for dialogue when drawing up the specifications required for the best possible execution of the contract bottling of a still wine. For clients, ...
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Guidelines No.14 - Hygiene control on bottling line of still wines
01/01/2010
In a bottling line situation, the customer is usually in charge of the bottled wine distribution, that is to say, he will have to assume the consequences of a low level of bottling hygiene.
It is therefore legitimate for him to ensure product quality with the relevant specifications.
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Guidelines No.15 - Good bottling practices
01/01/2012
The objective of this guide is to provide good practice recommendations for the bottling of beverages to ensure product quality and safety.
They are in line with the guidelines that are found in the main existing quality standards (e.g. ISO 9000, H.A.C.C.P., or IFS) but they do not cover all ...
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Guidelines No.17 - Specifications for screw caps for wines and alcoholic beverages
22/04/2013
- Latest update 04/05/2021
This document is intended to provide recommendations for establishing a supply specification for aluminum screw caps.
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Guidelines No.18.00 - Plastic bottle closure qualification test manual
09/09/2015
- Latest update 01/02/2024
This document provides a collection of test methods for the qualification of plastic flat-top closures applied on PET bottles that are used in the beverage industry.
This document has in view to ensure that every party involved in measuring and determining results consistently the same way.
It ...
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Guidelines No.18.01 - Plastic container snap-top closure qualification test manual
29/07/2020
- Latest update 30/06/2022
This document provides a collection of test methods for the qualification of snap-top plastic closures (single or multi-pieces) applied to containers and related neck finishes.
This document has been developed to ensure that every party involved is measuring and determining closure performance ...
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Guidelines No.19.00 - Plastic closure recycling
23/12/2024
This document provides guidelines for the recycling of closures used on one-way plastic beverage bottles that are recycled into state-of-the-art facilities. Closures for returnable bottles or in other materials are not included in this guideline.
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