On May 24, 2022, The Food Packaging Forum (FPF) published an interactive dashboard to explore all the available research on chemicals measured in plastic food packaging. The tool is included as a new page within FPF’s Database on Migrating and Extractable Food Contact Chemicals (FCCmigex) dashboard.
There are nearly 11,000 database entries from plastic food contact articles included in FCCmigex. The new dashboard page allows users to filter that information by 12 plastic types to see the most common chemicals detected for each material. There are over 1000 chemicals that were detected migrating from plastics into food or food simulants, the majority from single-use articles.
The FCCmigex dashboard and a peer-reviewed research paper were first published on May 19, 2022 (FPF reported). Coverage of the research in The Guardian was briefly one of the top 25 posts on Reddit, a popular news sharing platform.
On May 25, 2022 the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) will host a webinar featuring speakers from FPF, the Endocrine Society and IPEN to discuss the latest science on chemicals in food packaging, inform about health threats from endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in plastics, and give an overview of global policy regulations and opportunities to address chemicals of concern. Registration is free, and the webinar will be available in English, Arabic, French, Russian, and Spanish. More information and registration is available on the event’s page.
Reference
Food Packaging Forum (2022). “Database on Migrating and Extractable Food Contact Chemicals (FCCmigex).” Interactive tool
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Geueke, B. et al. (2022). “Systematic evidence on migrating and extractable food contact chemicals: Most chemicals detected in food contact materials are not listed for use.” Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, DOI: 10.1080/10408398.2022.2067828
Matt Krupnick (May 19, 2022). “More than 3,000 potentially harmful chemicals found in food packaging.” The Guardian
