News
The Food Packaging Forum reports on recent developments across the food packaging and health field.
September 12, 2025
Bangladesh Food Safety Authority issues draft food contact material (FCM) regulation; includes mandatory requirements for all FCMs, any standards not specified by Bangladesh should follow standards from Codex Alimentarius Commission, the US, or EU; enforcement likely in 2026
Topics: Bangladesh, regulation
Reading time: 2 minutes
September 11, 2025
MAHA Commission plan outlines over 120 initiatives; items related to food contact include GRAS reform, removing harmful chemicals from the food supply, microplastics; agencies to expand research on environmental exposures and cumulative risk
Reading time: 3 minutes
September 4, 2025
European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) updates PFAS restriction proposal following public consultation; does not include major exceptions or derogations regarding food contact materials; aims to complete scientific evaluation of proposal by the end of 2026; to be submitted to the European Commission in 2027
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September 1, 2025
Food Packaging Forum (FPF) scientists submit comments to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) public consultation; urge using a hazard-based approach, considering endocrine disruption as toxicity criterion, and adopting GHS classifications to prioritize chemicals for assessment; call to increase transparency during all evaluation stages
Reading time: 3 minutes
August 27, 2025
Legal challenge to the European Chemicals Agency's (ECHA) identification of melamine as a substance of very high concern (SVHC) rejected by General Court of the European Union; Melamine was identified as SVHC in December 2022
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August 27, 2025
In vitro study compares bisphenol A and 26 alternatives for their hazard potential using a battery of biological assays; suggests many BPA alternatives are regrettable substitutes; identifies potentially safer alternative; calls for regulating bisphenols as a group
Topics: bioassay, bisphenol A
Reading time: 3 minutes
August 26, 2025
Deep Science Ventures publishes report arguing that ‘pervasive toxicity threatens human and planetary health’; authors review scientific research to create comprehensive overview of effects from human and environmental exposure to chemicals; first key research highlight is Food Packaging Forum’s FCChumon study
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August 26, 2025
French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety investigates and compares microplastic levels in a set of beverages sold in France; reports highest microplastics per liter in beer and lemonades; paint from glass bottle closures identified as one source
Topics: microplastics
Reading time: 3 minutes
August 22, 2025
First global estimate of premature cardiovascular mortality due to phthalates; finds di-2-ethylhexylphthalate (DEHP) exposure contributed globally to 356,238 deaths in 2018 among people aged 55-64; cardiovascular mortality burden higher in the Asia-Pacific region
Topics: human health, phthalates
Reading time: 2 minutes
August 21, 2025
Extended plastic treaty talks in Geneva, Switzerland conclude without a global agreement; proposed treaty text would not have fulfilled the mandate to end plastic pollution considering the independent scientific evidence; Food Packaging Forum delegation on the ground supported the Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty; negotiations to reconvene at a later stage, date and place to be announced
Topics: global plastics treaty, plastics
Reading time: 3 minutes
