Law firm Keller & Heckman LLP holds first conference on China’s food and food packaging laws on September 11-12, 2018, in Shanghai; registration now open
Conference on plastics and consumer protection
Plastics association organizes conference to discuss next steps for consumer protection and to establish multi-stakeholder dialogue
Survey: Compliance documentation in the supply chain
DG SANTE conducts survey on the use of compliance documentation as required under the plastic FCM regulation, aims to identify problems and inform development of new FCM legislation; survey open until February 10, 2017
Feasibility of EU chemicals legislation database
ECHA evaluates feasibility of developing a database summarizing EU legislation for individual chemicals; updates on transparency efforts, future goals
Regulating persistent and mobile chemicals
German Environment Agency proposes criteria for persistent, mobile and toxic (PMT) chemicals in the water cycle
Workshop on tracers in plastics
Petcore Europe hosts workshop on tracers in plastic packaging to optimize sorting in February 2016 in Brussels
Webinar on fluorinated chemicals in food packaging
Responsible Purchasing Network held webinar on persistent and toxic fluorinated chemicals in food service ware, addressed migration and environmentally preferable alternatives
EU Commission held roundtable meeting on EDCs
700 potential EDCs to be screened, final deadline to set criteria for identifying EDCs not established
PFAS in Food Packaging Alternatives Assessment Results
FitNESS 2.0 project expands open access food packaging training materials
EU-funded training platform on responsible food packaging contains three months’ worth of free course material for both current and future professionals; developed by consortium of European universities specializing in food packaging; developments underway to expand platform’s training topics, provide validated certificates of course completion