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The Food Packaging Forum reports on recent developments across the food packaging and health field.
July 11, 2022
European Environmental Bureau (EEB) analysis finds that it takes the EU two decades to regulate a chemical from start to finish; bottlenecks include industry submitting incomplete information, over-analysis by EU regulators, and the European Commission taking longer to decide about a Scientific Opinion than ECHA takes to draft it
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July 7, 2022
European plastics associations map Member State implementation of the EU single use plastics directive (SUPD) a year after it was supposed to go into effect
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July 6, 2022
Investigation from Reuters reports Unilever fought to undermine the creation and implementation of laws banning or regulating plastic sachets in Sri Lanka, India, and the Philippines even while publicly acknowledging the pollution caused by the hard-to-recycle multilayer multimaterials during public comments
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July 5, 2022
Plastic pollution prevention and packaging producer responsibility act requires all packaging in California be recyclable or compostable by 2032; plastic packaging production be reduced by 25%, and 65% of packaging be recycled after use
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July 5, 2022
Report microplastics occur in lower airways of European citizens with the majority being fibers; evaluate microplastics indoor and outdoor exposure sources; work out established particle domains and paradigms can help predict toxicity of inhaled microplastic particles
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July 5, 2022
European Commission informs of planned amendments to (EU) No 10/2011 on plastic food contact materials; clarification that regulation applies to non-recycled plastics; adapts rules on migration testing for multilayer materials; introduces purity requirements; feedback period planned for later this year, adoption by end of 2022
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July 4, 2022
Multimedia Monitoring Database (MMDB) comprises data from 20 public monitoring data sources in harmonized machine-readable format; to support chemical exposure assessment and decision-making
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July 4, 2022
United States Senate Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions approves addition of amendment to routine bill funding the Food and Drug Administration that would ban PFAS in food packaging in the US; if bill ultimately passes, the ban would go into effect January 1, 2024
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July 4, 2022
European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) publishes position paper on the EU’s Farm to Fork Strategy; supports creating a European public health vision including One Health concept, and that analyzes the health costs of non-action; highlights ways food system, including chemicals, affects Europeans’ health; states health impacts from chemicals “insufficiently quantified”
Topics: Farm to Fork
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June 29, 2022
UPM Specialty Papers and Smithers survey over 200 packaging professionals to make predictions on the food packaging market in 2040; respondents believe that by 2040 packaging sustainability will be dictated by government mandates and consumers will no longer accept tradeoffs between sustainability and convenience
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