News
The Food Packaging Forum reports on recent developments across the food packaging and health field.
June 18, 2019
Open letter by 27 NGOs urges EU Commission to publish outcome of fitness evaluation of EU’s non-REACH chemical policies ahead of major conference, requests clarification of timelines to deliver strategy for non-toxic environment
Topics: European Commission, regulation
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June 18, 2019
Senate and Assembly of California address circular economy and plastic pollution; focus on reduction and domestic recycling of single-use plastics
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June 17, 2019
Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy initiative launches book about reuse; outlines reuse framework, identifies 6 major benefits of reuse to business and consumers, gives 69 reuse examples
Topics: circular economy, reuse
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June 17, 2019
Plastics Recyclers Europe publishes guidance on sorting to enable high-quality recycling
Topics: circular economy, recycling
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June 17, 2019
EU’s single-use plastics directive now published in the Official Journal of the EU
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June 14, 2019
EU Commission opens public consultation on roadmap for reviewing coherence of EU measures on endocrine disrupting chemicals and their effectiveness for protecting public health and the environment; responses accepted until July 10, 2019
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June 12, 2019
Development of action plan announced for Canada-wide Strategy on Zero Plastic Waste; ban to focus on reducing plastic pollution, aims to begin by 2021 but details still to be finalized
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June 7, 2019
Celebrating the first ever World Food Safety Day, EFSA publishes results of EU consumer survey on food safety, BfR holds event on microplastics
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June 7, 2019
U.S. State of Maine passes legislation aiming to eliminate phthalates and PFAS from food packaging from 2020, establish a system to assess further substances of concern in FCMs
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June 7, 2019
EFSA publishes guidance on using the Threshold of Toxicological Concern (TTC) approach in food safety assessment
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