Food Contact Regulations Europe 2022

David has recently retired after 35 years in global legislative processes, and a wide range of experience of EU biocide committees, working groups and technical workshops. In addition to his recent role as Senior Regulatory Analyst in Chemical Watch he worked for just under 20 years at UK HSE (UK Competent Authority for Biocides) as well as 7 years in industry and 5 years as a consultant.

Jane is the managing director of Food Packaging Forum, a charitable foundation that she set up in 2012 in Zurich, Switzerland. Jane holds a PhD in ecotoxicology and an MSc in environmental science from ETH Zurich. She specialises in science communication about chemicals in all types of food contact materials and articles, and their impacts on human health and the environment. Jane has published many scientific articles and studies on hazardous chemicals in food contact plastics and has been working on this issue since 2007.

Dr Michael Warhurst has been Executive Director of CHEM Trust since July 2014, leading the organisation and working with his team and other NGOs to improve EU chemical policies such as REACH and chemicals in food contact materials.

Miguel Angel Prieto Arranz, is a chemist by training, and is currently the Director of the “Food & feed”- and “Plastic Additives”-clusters in Cefic (the European Chemical Industry Council). He is the responsible Sector Group manager for “FCA” –Food Contact Additives. Before joining Cefic, he worked for four years in FoodDrinkEurope (the association of the European food and drink manufacturing industries) as food policy, science and R&D manager. Prior to that, he worked as R&D manager at the Technology Transfer Center Bremerhaven (ttz-Bremerhaven) in Germany.

Jonathan has a BSc degree in biochemistry (toxicology) from the University of Surrey and has previously worked for the UK's Food Standards Agency as a senior scientific officer on risk management of chemicals in food, including contaminants, pesticides and food contact materials.

Dr. Klatt graduated as Ph.D. of Science from University of Goettingen in 1992. From 1992 until 1995 he was working at University of Goettingen as Senior Scientist. In 1995 he joined BASF SE and started in polymer research in the field of engineering plastics and flame retardants for polymers. After an interim research position from 2007 until 2014, Dr. Klatt returned to the field of product safety and took over the product stewardship group of dispersions and resins. He represents BASF in various associations including the European association for dispersions (EPDLA) and the European manufacturer of Acrylate based UV/EB Resins (UVEB). Dr. Klatt was one of the founders of the initiative of CEPI and ECPG to align on an internet-based questionnaire for information transfer along the value chain. He currently is President of the two CEFIC Sector groups EPDLA and UVEB and of ALIPA.

In a position equivalent to partner, Anna is Director EHS Regulatory in Steptoe’s Brussels office.  A European Patent Attorney, with a PhD in analytical chemistry and quantum chemistry and more than 20 years of experience as a scientific and regulatory adviser in law firms, she provides companies with comprehensive compliance strategies in areas such as: chemicals, food and feed, food contact materials, biocides, medical devices, and the application of nanomaterials.

Tom Gillett advises clients on environmental and product law, with a focus on chemicals regulation (REACH, CLP, biocides, food contact), product safety and standards (CE/UKCA marking, RoHS, WEEE), sustainability, and the circular economy (packaging, producer responsibility and waste) in both the EU and the UK. Tom’s product defense experience includes: strategic advice for maintaining market access; advocacy before EU and UK institutions and agencies; appeals before the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) Board of Appeal; regulatory investigations; and commercial disputes concerning product compliance, safety and liability.

Dr. Driffield has 25 years’ experience in the field of analytical chemistry, providing advice and guidance on the analytical techniques used to investigate problems across a number of commodities and Industries including food, beverages, packaging such as plastics, coatings and printing inks, and fuels.

Eugenio graduated in Chemistry and has been working for the Paper Industry for 40 years. For 10 years he has been active in the sector of fine papers, for 20 years in the packaging board. At present time he is the Technical Manager of Cepi (the Confederation of the European Paper Industries) since ten years.  Eugenio works also as an independent consultant for the Paper and Board Industry doing implementation and auditing of Good Manufacturing Practice systems for food contact applications at paper companies.

Mike Simoni has a degree in Industrial and Natural Resource Chemistry from Brunel University.  He has spent 35 years working in technical functions within the printing ink manufacturing industry, with the last 26 years working in a variety of roles within Sun Chemical.

Christof Walter is a trained chemist with a PhD in Computational Chemistry. In 2016 he joined the German Paint and Printing Ink Association (VdL) as technical and regulatory affairs officer for Food Contact Materials and Biocides. Additionally, he is in charge of Food Contact Materials at the European Printing Ink Association (EuPIA)

Dr. Gernot Strehl is Head of Food Contact Technical Expert Team, Federation of the European Cookware, Cutlery and Houseware Industries (FEC). He joined Zwilling in 2012. Since then he has been involved via FEC in food contact testing and participating in discussions on food contact on an European level.

Dario has a Doctor degree in Polymer Chemistry from the University of Pisa, as well as a Masters in Food Legislation from Michigan State University

During more than 20 years Dr Michel Cassart has built up an industrial experience in Plastics by occupying various management positions in R&D, Customer Services, Polymer Production Process, Business Management & Business strategy. In 2016 he joined PlasticsEurope to coordinate Food Contact, REACH and some sector groups’ activities. In 2020 Michel moved to the position of Sustainable Use Director coordinating all activities related to the sustainable use of plastics and covering as well topics, such as safety of plastics and microplastics. PlasticsEurope, one of the leading European trade associations, is representing more than 100 member companies, producing over 90% of all polymers across the EU27 member states plus Norway, Switzerland, Turkey and UK.

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.

Dorota holds PhD degrees in Biology (Biochemistry) and in Biomedical Sciences (Nanotoxicology). Prior to joining Zero Waste Europe (ZWE), Dorota was leading the Safer Chemicals programme at Health Care Without Harm Europe, and worked for the European Commission (DG Joint Research Center) and at the Department of Public Health of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). At ZWE, Dorota's work focuses on the topic of non-toxicity of products and packaging (food packaging in particular), and clean and effective material cycles needed for achievement of a truly circular economy.

Neil Finley graduated in Chemical Engineering from University of Manchester’s Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in 1986 and has held various roles in the chemical industry for over 30 years.

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. 

Tina Robertson is a Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager, Food Contact Materials at knoell USA LLC, based out of Chicago. She provides regulatory support and to ensure compliance of food contact materials, reviews product compositions in accordance with global regulations, and prepares registration dossiers of food contact materials (FCM) in USA, EU, and Asia.

Reynold D'Souza works at the Global Product Compliance Group (GPC) as a Senior Consultant. He has fair experience of more than 30 years as a R&D professional in basic and specialty chemical industries. He has worked in the printing ink area and has helped on food packaging laws such as IS 15495-2020.

Gary is a Project Manager of TÜV Rheinland LGA Products GmbH. Gary has over 8 years of experience in handling Food Contact Material (FCM) and consumer product related to testing and compliance management activities. Currently, Gary support in managing global FCM compliance and regulatory service including different business categories (packaging, kitchenware, electrical, processing line).

Aline Lemos is a chemist from Campinas State University - UNICAMP. She has Master's Degree in Food Science at the same university. She has been working as a packaging researcher at the Packaging Technology Center (CETEA) of Food Technology Institute (ITAL) since 2002.

Bastiaan Schupp is the Team Leader for Food Contact Materials in DG Health and Food Safety of the European Commission. In the context of food safety, his main responsibly is the implementation of the specific measures on food contact materials presently in force, with a focus on the framework Regulation, plastic and recycled plastic food contact materials. Bastiaan is educated as a chemical engineer, and has a background in risk management.