Food Contact Regulations Europe 2022

Chemical Watch

• EU policy strategies, recent EFSA scientific opinions and their implications for the FCM framework regulation
• Other developments: recycled plastics regulation, styrene, EFSA prioritisation for reassessing authorised food contact chemicals

• The EU’s current rules on chemicals in food contact materials are incomplete and ineffective
• The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability (CSS) is an important step forward in developing a new approach
• We need a system that effectively protects human health and the environment, and promotes innovation towards safer alternatives

• Views from the producers of food contact additives 

Joined by

• Difference in data endpoints
• Volume based versus migration based
• What about ownership of data
• Suggestions how to combine both data sets and requirements

• Impasse between the FCM regulations and the BPR;  
• Specific regulatory considerations for food contact plastics materials and articles;
• Complex treated articles as FCMs;
• Way forward

• FCM legal framework in an independent UK
• Significant legal and policy developments
• Keeping pace with EU reform?

Advances in NIAS:

• What are NIAS?
• Importance of NIAS determination for FCM evaluations
• Recent work and advances in identification, quantification and evaluation

• The position of Cepi on the harmonisation at EU level of paper and board for food contact applications 
• The crucial role of Good Manufacturing Practice in ensuring the safety of FCM products 
• The revised Cepi Guideline for Good Manufacturing Practice
  • Reasons for the revision, approach and contents

• hazard identification and characterisation: do hazardous substances always represent a risk?
• exposure and safe use of food contact materials
• risk assessment and risk management- defining acceptable risks from food contact materials

• Limit values
• Food simulant and migration conditions
• Involvement of supply chain

• EuPIA initiatives such as the EuPIA Exclusion policy, FCM material guidance, substance hazard assessment, and sustainability initiatives  
• Chemical strategy for sustainability and how this may impact printed FCMs
• Revisions to the FCM framework regulation
• Discuss the national regulation

• Legal framework in Germany and the EU
• What will be changed by the so called "Printing Ink Ordinance”?
• Which information is provided by the printing ink industry?
• What applies during the transition period?