Silicone components are commonly added to paper in order to reduce the sticking on the surface to favor the separation of commodities with fat matrix from the paper wrapping.In this work infrared spectroscopy (in the HATR version) was evaluated for performing the quantitative determination of the silicone components content present on the surface of the aforesaid packages.The proposed method is demonstrated to distinguish papers that are differentiable for a content of at least 0,1 ± 0,2 g/m 2 , furnishing results in rapid and predictable way and not necessitating any preliminary sample preparation.Its application has allowed, for example, to determine the different level of silicone components that could be found in a paper used for oven-cooking of foods or in paperpackages for minicakes found on the market.