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BPA
October 29, 2025
India issues a draft regulation proposing the ban of PFAS in the manufacture of food contact materials (FCMs); also, FCMs made with polycarbonate or epoxy resins must be BPA-free; effective December 10, 2025; California requests information on p,p’-bisphenols for possible listing in Proposition 65 as toxic to reproduction; includes most common bisphenols in food packaging production; submissions open until December 1, 2025
Reading time: 2 minutes
September 15, 2025
Metal food and beverage cans often contain a coating to keep the food or drink separate from the metal. Epoxy-based can coatings containing bisphenol A dominated the market for many years. Epoxy is still a large share of coatings but formulations without BPA, and other types of coatings have entered the market due to toxicological concerns, public outcry, and regulatory decisions over BPA-based resins. This FPF article provides background information on the requirements, materials and properties of can coatings.
Reading time: 22 minutes
June 5, 2025
Make Our Children Healthy Again Assessment aims to summarize US “childhood chronic disease crisis and any potential contributing causes”; Assessment mandated by Executive Order with additional recommendations and strategy forthcoming; part of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) project spearheaded by Secretary Robert F Kennedy, Jr.
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April 10, 2025
German consumer organization analyzes ten pizza boxes for bisphenol A (BPA) and bisphenol S (BPS); detects BPA and BPS in nine and eight, respectively; migration into pizza was found in four samples for BPA and eight for BPS; attributes bisphenol content to contaminated recycling streams
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December 20, 2024
Commission adopts ban of Bisphenol A in food contact materials; also applies to other harmful bisphenols; there will be an 18-month phase out period
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May 17, 2024
European Commission’s working group on food contact materials (FCMs) shares updates and timelines on revision of the FCM regulation and BPA restriction; ongoing FCM sustainability study will be completed by February 2025; BPA restriction to be sent to Parliament and Council in mid-July
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April 19, 2023
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) publishes scientific opinion on bisphenol A (BPA); tolerable daily intake reduced by a factor of 20 000; concludes that there is a health concern from current dietary BPA exposure levels for entire population
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March 21, 2023
Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health publishes extensive report summarizing plastics’ effects across life cycle on human health, environment, and the economy; health effects cost society hundreds of billions every year; report includes actions for “governments and industries to minimize the negative consequences of global plastic contamination”
Topics: BPA, human health, microplastics, nanoplastics, PFAS, phthalates, plastic, pollution, supply chain
Reading time: 4 minutes
March 16, 2023
Trade body PlasticsEurope loses fourth legal case concerning regulations of bisphenol A (BPA); European Court of Justice supports ECHA’s classification of BPA as substance of high very high concern (SVHC)
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March 2, 2023
Minutes available from recent meetings of the working groups on food contact materials (FCMs), bisphenol A (BPA), and recycling plastics, within the European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA’s) Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP Panel); no further meeting of the BPA working group planned; specific migration limit (SML) for styrene in FCMs upcoming
Reading time: 3 minutes
