Food Contact Materials Practical Training Series

This session will examine the steps that should be taken to assess the risk of FCM substances that migrate into food under foreseeable conditions of use. 

We will look at the differences between the intentionally and non intentionally added substances (IAS and NIAS), then examine when a given IAS or NIAS can be self-risk assessed, and when industry should consider, for an IAS, an application to a competent authority. 

By attending this training course, you will learn: 

• which countries/regions, in the above-mentioned markets allow self-risk assessments for an IAS and/or NIAS migrating into food from a FCM; 

• when there is no need for a (self) risk assessment of migrating substances into food from FCM; 

• what to do when it is not possible to carry out a self-risk assessment, and when a risk assessment must be provided as part of a petitioning process for including a new FCM substance on a given positive list in a particular key market; 

• what type of information (for example, physico-chemical, (eco) toxicological) is needed to carry out the (self) risk assessment of an IAS or NIAS migrating into food; 

• when read-across can be used in the (self) risk assessment of an IAS and NIAS migrating into food from an FCM; 

• when a threshold of toxicological concern (TTC) approach can be used in the (self) risk assessment of an IAS or NIAS migrating into food; and 
• when and which specific (quantitative) structure-activity relationship (QSAR) tools can be used in the (self) risk assessment of an IAS or NIAS migrating into food from a FCM. 

Trainer: Theresa Neely

Toxicologist, knoell