Food Contact Regulations Asia 2021

Yada Chantarasomboon is Packaging Safety and Compliance Expert (AOA) - Nestlé Quality Assurance Center at Nestlé (Thai) Ltd. She has worked in packaging areas for 14 years, with 8 years in packaging safety and compliance, and has a B.S. and M.S. in Packaging Technology from Kasetsart University.

Dr. Piyatida (Tung) Pukclai has worked in several technical and managerial positions within the Business Development and Regulatory Policy. Currently, she is Asia-Pacific Lead for Regulatory Policy and Business Development of knoell, an independent service provider for Regulatory Affairs and Product Registration over 25 years.

Experienced Compliance Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the chemicals industry. Specialised in international food contact regulations, specifically for plastics in contact with food.

Eric Gu advises domestic and foreign clients on the requirements and regulations for a variety of consumer products, including foods, food additives, food packaging materials, drugs, cosmetics, medical devices, and associated labeling, with a focus on China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, and other Asian countries.

Dr. Zhu Lei, Researcher, Director of Food Safety Standard Division I, China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment (CFSA). In 2016, she studied the regulation and evaluation method of food contact materials (FCM) in EFSA as a guest scientist. She is the Deputy Chairman of the Branch Committee on Food Related Products of the National Food Safety Standards Review Committee, the Deputy Secretary General of the plastic subcommittee of Direct Food Contact Materials (FCM) Standardization Technology Committee, the member of the ISO/TC 52 International Standardization Technology Committee of Light Gauge Metal Containers, the National Food Safety Risk Assessment Expert Committee, the National Packaging Standardization Technology Committee and the National Plastic Products Standardization Technology Committee, etc. 

Mr. Ioan Paraschiv, next to managing the capacity within FFCM Division, provides regulatory and technical support on registration of food contact materials (FCM) in EU, USA, China and Mercosur. He holds a PhD degree in Physical-Organic Chemistry from Wageningen University, the Netherlands.

Junho Lee is a Director at CIRS Group Korea and has 18 years of international experience specializing in the field of chemical regulations, standards and certifications in Korea, China and Europe. He has supported industry on major chemical regulatory updates around the world starting with EU REACH, and now Korea’s K-REACH.