FPF hosts Green Chemistry talk in Zurich, Speaker Pete Myers argues for importance to change chemical design process
Swiss Green Economy Symposium: Stakeholderdialog Kreislauftwirtschaft Verpackungen
Green Chemistry to make chemicals inherently safer
Event: Food packaging, circular economy and sustainability
Food Packaging Forum and GreenBuzz to host thematic apéro on “Food packaging: Circular economy or take, make and dispose?”; September 22, 2015 in Zurich, registration now open
Insurer cautions on nanomaterials
Zurich Insurerance Group labels nanotechnology industry an ‘emerging risk’, lack of knowledge on long term effects
EFSA publishes guidance on chemical grouping for risk assessments
Final version of European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) guidance prioritizes hazard-driven criteria for grouping chemicals; supports human health risk assessments of combined chemical exposures; recommends relying on mechanistic information on toxicity within a weight-of-evidence approach
Denmark plans registry of products containing nanomaterials
Danish EPA launches public consultation phase on draft order, registry not to be publicly accessible
2023 FPF Workshop: Goals and policy processes for safe and sustainable FCMs
On the morning of the Food Packaging Forum’s 11th annual workshop, speakers share processes to measure sustainable food packaging while accounting for multiple concerns; three speakers share findings from developing frameworks to make packaging safer, account for tradeoffs, and reduce plastic packaging use; three speakers share how policy is developed at the United Nations and European Union
EDC criteria for pesticides adopted
EU Commission officially adopts revised EDC criteria for plant protection products; practical application guidance to be finalized in summer 2018; consumer organization wants EDC criteria to go ‘beyond’ biocides and pesticides
FPF Workshop 2016: Enforcement, migration, and BPA
Enforcement of migration limits, industry standards, and research collaboration between regulators and academics to investigate BPA’s low-dose toxicity discussed at the FPF 2016 workshop