Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) Committee of European Parliament passes resolution calling for upcoming chemicals strategy to fully apply precautionary and polluter-pays principles; resulting legislation should address and minimize endocrine disrupting and other hazardous chemicals in products including food packaging and recycled materials
ECHA consults on potential SVHCs
European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) opens public consultation on the identification of dioctyltin dilaurate and stannane, dioctyl-, bis(coco acyloxy) derivatives as substances of very high concern (SVHCs) due to reproductive toxicity; comments accepted until October 16, 2020
New FCM regulations in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia presents two draft regulations for FCMs; covering metal, glass, paper, carton, multilayered textile, wood, and plastics
Limited use of phthalates in medicines, no risks from parabens
European Medicines Agency publishes draft guideline on the use of phthalates and parabens
The NORMAN Suspect List Exchange (NORMAN-SLE): facilitating European and worldwide collaboration on suspect screening in high resolution mass spectrometry
Contamination found in paper straws
Swiss government laboratory tests paper drinking straws purchased from grocery stores and restaurants; finds chloropropanols, mineral oils, photoinitiators
Opinion: BPA in food packaging should be illegal
Member of European Parliament suggests banning bisphenol A due to findings of French study
Drinks industry under pressure to implement reuse models
Daily Mail reports on environmental campaigners call to action for more sustainable beverage packaging; based on Zero Waste Europe report; says beverage packaging sector will not reach climate targets without deposit return schemes
Sweden develops nanomaterial registry
KEMI drafts proposal for national nanomaterial register, conducts impact assessment and consults with agencies and stakeholders; process to be finalized by December 1, 2015
Conference on NIAS and mineral oils
Italian Institute of Packaging to host conference on NIAS and mineral oils in food contact materials on March 28-29, 2018 in Munich