While many mineral-oil-based products meet the NSF International’s food-grade requirements, they often do not measure up to the more demanding temperature and load requirements of modern food, beverage, and pharmaceutical processing equipment. Compared to mineral-oil lubricants, synthetics tolerate both lower and higher temperatures, offer improved antiwear properties, extend lubrication intervals, and lengthen the service life of moving parts. Like mineral oils, synthetic food-grade lubricants are nontoxic, odorless, colorless, and tasteless. 

Nye’s synthetic food-grade lubricants have been approved and registered by the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) for use in and around food processing areas. They meet the Nonfood Compound H-1 guidelines for incidental food contact. All raw materials in these lubricants conform to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) CFR Title 21. 

Please visit the NSF website to see a list of all the food grade products Nye manufactures. 

NSF has taken over the registration program formerly administered by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), which was discontinued in 1998. The NSF program provides a proven process for determining product acceptability and compliments NSF food processing equipment certification and food safety evaluations. 

In addition to products listed below, Nye can work directly with you to formulate new synthetic lubricants for your food processing and handling equipment, ensuring the new formulations use FDA recognized raw materials. We can also register new formulations with NSF.