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Bottles, cans and closures

Tamper evidence

By Dwight Davis, Founder

Updated

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A drink is consumed directly from the container, which makes this category more sensitive than most.

Expected rather than required

There is no general tamper-evident packaging requirement for ordinary beverages.

What there is: a strong consumer and retailer expectation, and a practical need in a product that is opened and drunk immediately.

What each closure gives you

Crown caps are inherently tamper-evident: they cannot be removed and replaced.

ROPP forms a pilfer band at capping that separates on first opening.

Cans are tamper-evident by construction.

Plain screw caps are not, which is why a screw-capped beverage usually carries a band or a tamper-evident closure design.

Swing-tops are not, and are the format where a separate seal matters most.

Why it matters here

The product goes straight to the mouth with no preparation step in between.

And in a live or carbonated product a broken seal is also a safety signal: a bottle that has been opened has lost pressure and may have been recontaminated, and the customer cannot tell without evidence.

Which makes a visible seal a quality communication as much as a security one.

Shrink and bands

A shrink band over the closure is cheap and quick with a heat gun.

A full sleeve can carry the whole label, which solves the wet-label adhesion problem at the same time and is common in this category for exactly that reason.

Whichever, apply after the bottle is dry, and check the band survives a fridge and an ice bucket alongside the label.

References

No published source. This page is written from practice rather than from published guidance. No extension service or agency publishes on this question for beverages, so nothing here is cited, and it should be weighed as experience and not as a standard.
Written from the federal regulation and agency guidance named on each page, not from a laboratory. Whether a particular product meets a pathogen reduction requirement, and what its alcohol content actually is, are measurements about your product, and this is not those measurements.