News
The Food Packaging Forum reports on recent developments across the food packaging and health field.
May 13, 2025
The Competent Authorities for REACH and CLP (CARACAL) presented their plans for a revision of the REACH regulation; receives heavy criticism from industry and civil society; still under development and expected to be adopted by the European Commission in Q4 2025
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April 30, 2025
During April plenary, European Parliament voted for ‘one substance, one assessment’ package; aims to increase cooperation and reallocate tasks across European agencies involved in chemical legislation and monitoring, create common chemical data platform
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April 28, 2025
Regulation amending several EU regulations on plastic food contact material (FCMs) entered into force on March 16, 2025; broadens scope, addresses non-intentionally added substances, and introduces labeling requirements for repeated use plastic articles
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April 25, 2025
Consumer survey by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) shows that 68% and 16 % are very or medium concerned about “microplastics in food; “plastics” were rated as the second greatest health risk for consumers
Topics: microplastics
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April 15, 2025
A coalition of ten Swiss civil society organizations call on the Swiss government to strengthen measures against plastic pollution; want to see ban on unnecessary single-use items and phase out of hazardous chemicals in plastic packaging; call for recognition of plastic pollution as not only an environmental but also a health issue
Topics: plastic, Switzerland
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April 14, 2025
Scientists perform targeted and non-targeted chemical screening of 33 bio-based dishes; report melamine presence in majority of tested bamboo tableware; migration partly exceeds EU’s legal limit; besides melamine, up to eleven different pesticide residues detected per bio-based container
Topics: melamine
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April 11, 2025
Study investigates organophosphates, phthalates and other plasticizers in 52 ultra-processed plant-based foods; finds these chemicals in higher levels than in comparable animal-based foods; cheese-alternatives more contaminated than meat- and fish-alternatives; identifies food packaging as one source of contamination
Topics: extraction, food processing
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April 10, 2025
German consumer organization analyzes ten pizza boxes for bisphenol A (BPA) and bisphenol S (BPS); detects BPA and BPS in nine and eight, respectively; migration into pizza was found in four samples for BPA and eight for BPS; attributes bisphenol content to contaminated recycling streams
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April 3, 2025
Government of Canada releases final State of Per- and Polyfluroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Report examining PFAS as a class; concludes that PFAS are toxic; proposes phased risk management approach to limit environmental and human exposure; public consultations open until May 7, 2025
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April 2, 2025
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) is mandated by the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) that entered into force on February 11, 2025, to carry out study identifying chemicals of concern in food packaging; report to be submitted by September 2026
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