News
The Food Packaging Forum reports on recent developments across the food packaging and health field.
December 5, 2016
Danish Ministry holds expert stakeholder workshop to discuss chemical policy; presentations available online; recommendations made for EU Commission
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December 2, 2016
Videos of presentations and panel discussions held at ILSI North America workshop on safety evaluation of FCMs in September 2016 are now available online
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December 1, 2016
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency publishes first list of chemicals to be assessed under the modernized Toxic Substances Control Act; 8 of 10 chemicals have history of use in food contact materials
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November 30, 2016
Scientists condemn the use of strategies for manufacturing doubt, previously employed to delay protective actions on tobacco use and climate change, and now turned against science on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs); call upon Europe and the world to act on EDCs
Topics: endocrine disruptor, regulation
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November 30, 2016
Hazard-based approaches are criticized and risk-based management of chemicals is pushed for in Europe; doing so would weaken the protection of public health, International Chemical Secretariat (ChemSec) explains
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November 29, 2016
Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry publishes 15 video segments and 7 slide presentations from symposium on BPA-free can linings
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November 29, 2016
U.S. NIH initiates ECHO, 7-year program to study the effects of environmental exposures on children’s health; NIEHS launches CHEAR enabling more NIH scientists who study children’s health to add exposure measures to their research
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November 28, 2016
European Court of Justice decision strengthens public access to data about chemical emissions into the environment; industry association worries about confidentiality of business information
Topics: regulation
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November 25, 2016
European Container Glass Federation (FEVE) calls upon the European Commission to develop harmonized legislation for glass as food packaging material
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November 25, 2016
China publishes 53 mandatory national standards for food contact materials and additives, replacing all previous regulations
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