The 2018 annual Food Packaging Forum (FPF) Workshop featured high profile speakers and offered an ideal platform for exchanging views with different stakeholders in the field of food contact materials (FCMs). The FPF Workshop is a one-of-a-kind event in the FCMs world to learn about recent developments in science, business, advocacy, and regulation. As in previous years, the 6th edition of the FPF Workshop also presented an excellent opportunity for networking. If you have any questions regarding the FPF Workshop, do not hesitate to contact us at events@fp-forum.org.
The FPF also provided access to a live webcast of this year’s workshop for a minimal registration fee. Participants who could not attend the workshop in person, thus still had the opportunity to follow the speaker presentations, Q&As, and the podium discussion.
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08:00 | Registration and coffee |
Morning session Chair: Prof. Dr. Martin Scheringer |
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09:00 | Welcome and introduction Prof. Dr. Martin Scheringer, Food Packaging Forum Foundation, Switzerland |
09:05 | Improving the safety of food contact articles Dr. Ksenia Groh, Food Packaging Forum Foundation, Switzerland |
09:30 | What is in our packaging? Toxicity and chemicals leaching from plastics Dr. Martin Wagner, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway |
10:00 | Coffee break |
10:30 | Does predictive toxicology live up to its promise? Prof. Dr. Bruce Blumberg, University of California, Irvine, USA |
11:00 | New computational methodologies as enablers of safer food contact articles Dr. Olivier Vitrac, INRA, France |
11:30 | Reality check: Can chemistry become 'sustainable'? Prof. Dr. Terrence J. Collins, Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
12:00 | Lunch break |
Afternoon session Chair: Prof. Dr. Pete Myers |
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13:00 | Good predictions and bad decisions? Philosophical thoughts on science-based decision-making Dr. Karim Bschir, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
Podium: Digital opportunities for FCM safety | |
13:30 | Challenges in the untargeted analysis of mineral oils Dr. Sander Koster, Nestlé, Switzerland |
13:45 | Digital opportunities in supply chain communication Sonja Eijpe, M.Sc., Viaware, the Netherlands |
14:00 | High-throughput methods for estimating food contact substance exposures to support risk-based chemical prioritization Dr. Kristin Isaacs, Environmental Protection Agency, USA |
14:15 | Making consumers’ voices heard Dr. Pelle Moos, The European Consumer Organisation, Belgium |
14:30 | A retailer's perspective on managing hazardous chemicals in food packaging and other products Malene Teller Blume, B.Sc., Coop Danmark, Denmark |
14:45 | Coffee break |
15:15 | Podium discussion With Sander Koster, Sonja Eijpe, Kristin Isaacs, Pelle Moos, and Malene Teller Blume Moderated by Dr. Jane Muncke, Food Packaging Forum Foundation, Switzerland |
16:30 | Conclusions and adjourn Prof. Dr. Martin Scheringer |