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Different perspectives on food contact materials: Working together to make FCMs safer

October 6, 2021 – October 8, 2021  

When

Oct 6, 2021 - Oct 8, 2021    
15:00 - 17:30

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Bookings closed

Event Type

The 2021 Food Packaging Forum (FPF) Workshop took place online in a virtual format on October 6-8, 2021, under the theme “Different perspectives on food contact materials: working together to make FCMs safer.” The event featured a range of high-profile speakers from different areas of expertise and provided insights into the latest science and policy-making within the field, as well as discussed how stakeholders can better work together to make food contact materials (FCMs) safer for everyone. Over 150 registered participants joined the sessions, offering an international platform for exchanging views and ideas with stakeholders from around the world.

The Food Packaging Forum has been granted permission from the speakers to publicly publish the presentations given and most of their accompanying slides. The presentation recordings and their slides are available below. A series of summary articles have also been published reporting on each of the presentations. The Whova virtual platform will remain open for registered participants to continue discussing with one another and networking until April 2022. For any questions related to the workshop, please contact events(at)fp-forum.org.

Bookings

Bookings are closed for this event.

Talks

Human health and environmental impacts of food contact articles and their chemicals: FPF’s work in 2021

Dr. Birgit Geueke

Food Packaging Forum Foundation

Human biomonitoring and mixture effects of food contact chemicals

Prof. CG Bornehag

Karlstad University

Human health impacts of micro- and nanoplastics

Prof. Juliette Legler

Utrecht University

Thresholds: Discontinuities in a continuous world

Prof. Chris Portier

Emory University

Chemicals and reproductive health

Prof. Shanna Swan

Mount Sinai

Food retailer’s packaging reduction targets: How to get the right data from all the supply chain actors?

Leontien Hasselman

SIM Supply Chain Information Management

Raising the bar on food contact materials at Whole Foods Market

Jody Villecco

Whole Foods Market

One bin to rule them all: A look into plastic recycling

Prof. Mike Shaver

University of Manchester

Overview of the evaluation and revision of EU FCM legislation

Jonathan Briggs

DG SANTE at the European Commission

Understanding Packaging (UP) Scorecard: A new tool to reduce environmental and human health impacts

Dr. Florian Suter

Food Packaging Forum Foundation

Regulating PFAS in food packaging: One at a time or all at once?

Dr. Simona Bălan

California Department of Toxic Substances Control

Sustainable developments of consumer products in the focus of official control laboratories

Lydia Richter

Chemisches und Veterinäruntersuchungsamt (CVUA) Stuttgart

Minderoo Foundation Plastics and Human Health

Lisa Hooyer and Prof. Sarah Dunlop

Minderoo Foundation

Cooperation and collaboration during uncertain times: A decision making perspective

Prof. Poonam Arora

Manhattan College

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