Events
Presentations
The Food Packaging Forum (FPF) hosts both public webinars and speaks as a guest presenter during other webinars and at international forums. FPF presents on a regular basis on current topics in the field of food contact materials (FCMs).
Presentation
Health Care Without Harm holds webinar featuring presentation from the Food Packaging Forum; focuses on risks posed by hazardous substances in food contact materials in the health care sector, shares best practices for addressing these through procurement
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Race for Water Foundation holds webinar featuring presentation from the Food Packging Forum; focuses on chemicals present in plastics, their toxicities, migration potential into food; discusses ongoing policy challenges and potential next steps
Panel Discussion
Politico holds high-level panel discussion featuring Food Packging Forum; focuses on sustainable packaging in the EU; discusses ongoing policy challenges and potential next steps
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Food Packging Forum presentation at AIMPLAS okPlast conference provides overview of chemical safety aspects of commonly used plastics relevant for the circular economy
Webinar
Food Packaging Forum webinar features presentation from Alan Bergmann of the Swiss Centre for Applied Ecotoxicology on recent research developing novel bioassays to improve testing of food contact materials (FCMs); method improves sensitivity of detecting estrogenicity within complex mixtures of chemicals
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Food Packaging Forum presentation provides an overview of the multi-stakeholder debate related to the safety of reusable food packaging during the COVID-19 pandemic; reviews calls for action from industry associations, NGOs, and recommendations from governments
Webinar
Webinar features presentation from researchers at Tufts University discussing published study observing non-monotonic dose-responses in mammary gland development of rats from exposure to bisphenol A (BPA)
Webinar
Martyn Smith from UC Berkeley presents on the development of sets of key characteristics to help identify hazardous chemicals; international working group of experts focuses on carcinogens, male and female reproductive toxicants, expanding work on other toxicants
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Jane Muncke from the Food Packaging Forum presents on the chemicals that can be present in plastic food packaging and highlights the unknowns surrounding non-intentionally added substances (NIAS)
Webinar
Learn more about the outcomes of a recent study investigating the in vitro toxicity and chemical composition of everyday plastic products
