Global Food Contact Materials Regulations

This seventh module will look at Chinese regulations that directly impact FCMs and food contact articles. In China they are known as GB standards. Before taking a deep dive into the regulations, the webinar will look at how China, under the general safety standard GB 4806.1-2016 defines FCMs. 

This will be followed by an overview of all China’s GB standards affecting FCMs. Among the topics to be discussed will be the draft standard on food contact adhesives – and the current regulatory status of FCM substances such as: bisphenol A (BPA) and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), as well as the newly approved food contact additives added to standardGB 9685-2016. 

Examples of food contact additives that the Chinese authorities have already approved will be given as well.  

By attending this webinar, you will learn:

• which Chinese standards apply to the FCMs you are interested in, including plastic resins, plastic articles, small projections on an article, ceramic, glass, paper, paperboard, paints and coatings (or films), etc;
• which food contact additives have already been approved in China by the country's National Health Commission (NHC);
• what petition steps need to be taken to get a new food contact additive listed in China;
• what migration testing conditions are to be applied, 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 key-listed food contact additives with respect to their specific migration limit (SML), as well as the overall migration limit (OML); 
• how to address Nias (non-intentionally added substances) that could migrate into food, under intended conditions of use;
• what the key steps are when considering the risk assessment of Nias or Ias (intentionally added substances) potentially migrating into food from an FCM or food contact article; and
• how to demonstrate compliance in China with food contact applications.

Ioan Paraschiv, PhD

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