Food Contact Regulations Europe 2023

Moderator

David Dillon

Independent Biocides Expert

• Setting the scene: latest developments in the FCM legislative revision

Rachida Semail

Partner, Keller and Heckman LLP

• Regulatory coherence: links with other EU policy initiatives; and
• Food contact additives (FCA): views of producers.

Miguel Angel Prieto Arranz

Sector Group Manager, Cefic-FCA

• Overview of the current requirements for FCM regulatory compliance;
• Issues to be resolved;
• A snapshot of potential regulatory solutions and their shortcomings; and
• Benefits of a “new approach” in the EU – The Food Contact Approval (FCA) system.

Anna Gergely

Director, EHS Regulatory, Steptoe & Johnson, Belgium

Joined by

Jonathan Briggs

Policy Officer - Food Contact Materials, DG SANTE, EU Commission

• Societal expectations towards the safety of food contact materials;
• Why we continue to find toxic chemicals in FCMs in the EU; and
• CHEM Trust’s view on how to regulate FCMs.

Antonia Reihlen

Chemical Policy Expert, CHEM Trust Europe e.V.

• Role of Member States in regulation of Food Contact Materials (FCM);
• Risk-based official control programmes for FCM in EU context;
• Complying with the new rules for official controls; and
• Evolution of FCM legislation.

Bernard Hegarty

Director, Enforcement Policy, Food Safety Authority of Ireland

Joined by

Jonathan Briggs

Policy Officer - Food Contact Materials, DG SANTE, EU Commission

Moderator

David Dillon

Independent Biocides Expert

• Toxicological study of a major NIAS in epoxy resins;
• The anticipated EFSA opinion on BPA;
• The restriction in Germany; and
• The potential impact on FCM, particularly food contact coatings.

Neil Finley

Head of Global Food Safety, Henkel Adhesives, UK

• Main points of the proposal to restrict all PFAS (expected to be published on February 7, 2023), with specific focus on fluoropolymers 
• Outline of the restriction procedure until final adoption, with specific focus on public consultations; and
• Effective advocacy: type of requests in the public consultations (derogations, longer transition periods etc.), form, confidentiality issues. 

Ales Bartl

Partner, Keller and Heckman LLP

• A discussion from an ink manufacturers perspective as to what future food contact material legislation should include:
  • followed by a comparison of how current and proposed legislation fits against that ideal.

Michael Simoni

Global Sustainability Director, Sun Chemical Ltd, UK

• What are NIAS and why are they (regulatorily) important?;
• Identification of NIAS;
• Quantification of NIAS; and
• Recent advances.

Malcolm Driffield, Ph.D.

Managing Scientist, Chemical Regulation & Food Safety, Exponent

• Market figures plastics;
• Plastics packaging save resources and energy; and
• Recycling instead of landfilling

Dr Sabine Lindner

Senior Expert Consumer Affairs, PlasticsEurope Deutschland e. V.

VIRTUAL PRESENTATION

• understand the increase of environmental packaging EPR-related marking requirements in Europe;
• recent legislative developments in European countries such as France, Spain and Italy;
• a summary of upcoming mandatory packaging marking requirements in the UK; and
• challenges product manufacturers and sellers face with other marking requirements, such as the Green Dot trademark.

Jordan Girling

Head of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), WRAP

• Systematic approaches addressing chemical migration;
• Case studies on chemical migration illustrating evidence and knowledge gaps; and
• Integration of chemical safety and sustainability.

Birgit Geueke

Scientific Officer, Food Packaging Forum, Switzerland