Global Food Contact Materials Regulations

The fourth module will look at Canadian regulations that directly impact food packaging. It will begin with a  look at how under the Division 23 of the Food and Drugs Act and Regulations, Section B23.001, Canada defines food packaging materials. 

Among the topics to be discussed will be categories 1 and 2 letters of no objection (LONO) applications that a convertor/formulator can voluntarily submit to Health Canada. 

Category 1 and 2 templates will be presented and discussed, as well as the data requirements for LONO applications and the timelines on feedback from Health Canada.    

Examples of food packaging materials that Health Canada has already approved will be given as well.  

By attending this webinar, you will learn:

• which regulations apply to food packaging materials in Canada, including different product categories (eg, finished articles and formulated products, as well as single additives);
• which products have already been cleared in Canada, for food contact applications; 
• the steps for completing LONO applications (categories 1 and 2);
• which migration testing conditions are to be applied for a category 2 LONO application, with case study examples;
• how to carry out a worst-case calculation (WCC) in cases of missing experimental or theoretical (modelling) migration data;
• what the specifications are for certain already-approved products for food contact applications in Canada;
• what the key steps are when considering the risk assessment of food packaging substances migrating into food from a given food packaging product; and
• how to demonstrate compliance in Canada for a given food packaging substance/ product.

Ioan Paraschiv, PhD

Group Leader, Global Food & Food Contact Materials (FFCM) Division, Knoell, Netherlands