News
The Food Packaging Forum reports on recent developments across the food packaging and health field.
December 10, 2019
German Environment Agency (UBA) provides updated guidelines for identifying substances that are persistent, mobile, and toxic (PMT) or very persistent and very mobile (vPvM); finds 260 REACH registered substances meet set criteria, prioritizes 122 for further investigation
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December 10, 2019
European Consumer Organization (BEUC) position document stresses importance of putting consumer and societal needs first, ensuring public money is spent on public goods; shares concerns about ‘Innovation Principle’
Topics: innovation
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December 10, 2019
Recycling, biobased polymers, NIAS among the important topics discussed at Smithers Pira's conference on plastics and paper in contact with food
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December 9, 2019
Keynote talks and presentations during Smithers Pira’s annual conference on plastics and paper in contact with food inform about new EU legislation and global regulatory developments
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December 9, 2019
New Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI) guidelines address designing paper-based packaging for recycling, aimed to be generally applicable to European markets
Topics: paper & board
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December 9, 2019
Platform article in Chemical Watch discusses EU Commission’s efforts to identify and address endocrine disrupting chemicals; calls for crosscutting regulatory framework, identifying and acting on suspected EDCs, considering all health costs; sees fitness check as chance to put words into action
Topics: endocrine disruptor
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December 9, 2019
Notification to the World Trade Organization includes specific migration limits for chemicals by food contact material (FCM) type; plastics with lost traceability not to be used in food contact applications; draft standards open for comments until January 21, 2019
Topics: migration
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December 9, 2019
Group of 22 scientists call for advancing and harmonizing application of exposure science in Europe, identify three key needs and propose six long-term activities to address them
Topics: exposure
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December 9, 2019
European Chemicals Agency publishes ‘map of chemical universe’ assigning over 21’000 REACH-registered chemicals into regulatory action-based ‘pools’; the majority (86%) not yet evaluated
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December 6, 2019
New study shows that different measurement methods lead to large discrepancies in BPA human body burdens; human population exposed to higher levels of BPA than estimated using standard method; human health risk of BPA likely underestimated
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