News
The Food Packaging Forum reports on recent developments across the food packaging and health field.
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
Reading time: 2 minutes
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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December 5, 2019
European Environment Agency state of the environment 2020 report examines chemical pollution in Europe; recommends moving away from individual risk assessments towards grouping, using less hazardous chemicals across life cycle to improve circularity of economy
Topics: risk assessment
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December 5, 2019
Results from study find 54% increase in recycling of plastics in Belgium since 2006; identify that recycled plastics not fully used in new products; report provides tables and figures with mass flows of plastic waste sources and treatments
Topics: circular economy, plastics
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December 5, 2019
European Chemicals Agency publishes updated versions of two guidance documents for registration of substances in nanoform
Topics: ECHA, nanomaterials
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December 5, 2019
Agency announces expanded uses for three food contact materials and articles, three new resins, and one new food contact substance; public comments accepted until December 25, 2019
Topics: china, regulation
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