News
The Food Packaging Forum reports on recent developments across the food packaging and health field.
May 22, 2019
Representative Debbie Dingell from the U.S. state of Michigan introduces bill in U.S. congress to ban all per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances from food containers and cookware
Topics: PFAS, regulation
Reading time: 2 minutes
May 22, 2019
European Council formally adopts new rules on single-use plastics and recycling targets; directive completes final step before becoming law; England to ban plastic straws, stirrers, and cotton buds from April 2020
Topics: plastics, regulation
Reading time: 2 minutes
May 21, 2019
German NGO BUND uses freedom of information request to identify substances and companies implicated in incomplete REACH dossiers, calls on ECHA to increase transparency of substance registrations
Topics: REACH, regulation
Reading time: 2 minutes
May 21, 2019
Housewares manufacturer to produce new food contact products using chemically recycled mixed plastics; reusable straw and to-go coffee cup to be made beginning this summer
Topics: chemical recycling
Reading time: 1 minute
May 20, 2019
ECETOC publishes conceptual framework for risk assessment of polymers; considers polymer diversity, presence of intentionally and non-intentionally added substances
Topics: risk assessment
Reading time: 1 minute
May 20, 2019
Health and materials company plans to phase out N-methylpyrrolidone (NMP) from coating resins by July 2020, promotes solvent-free waterborne resins
Reading time: 1 minute
May 20, 2019
Published safety assessment finds co-polymer containing modified C10-16 alkyl esters safe for use in food contact plastics under set conditions
Topics: EFSA
Reading time: 1 minute
May 17, 2019
Stakeholders urge equal treatment of SVHCs in REACH and FCM legislation, call for more harmonized FCM measures
Reading time: 2 minutes
May 17, 2019
France bans titanium dioxide in food by 2020 following report by ANSES reiterating 2017 recommendation to reduce exposures; EFSA does not see need to open reassessment at the moment
Reading time: 3 minutes
May 17, 2019
EFSA proposes methodology for evaluating risks posed by food contaminants detected in RASFF, addresses toxicological properties and dietary exposure, develops Rapid Assessment of Contaminant Exposure (RACE) tool
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