Agenda
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Registration and coffee
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- Session one: General regulatory update
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Revision of the FCM legislation: where are we?
- Setting the scene: latest developments in the FCM legislative revision
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Food contact additives (FCA) industry views on the revision of the FCM legislation
- Regulatory coherence: links with other EU policy initiatives; and
- Food contact additives (FCA): views of producers.
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Food contact approvals (FCA’s): A new approach for the authorisation of FCM’s in the EU
- 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.
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Q&A session
Joined by
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Refreshment break
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Food contact regulations – An NGO view
- 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.
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Food contact regulations – role of Member States and challenges
- 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.
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Q&A session
Joined by
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Lunch and networking
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- Session two: Restrictions that will affect FCM’s
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Upcoming restrictions on bisphenols and the impact on FCM’s
- 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.
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PFAS restriction proposal under REACH
- 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.
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Q&A session
- Session three: Substance-specific issues
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What’s new for printing FCM inks in EU & UK?
- 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.
- A discussion from an ink manufacturers perspective as to what future food contact material legislation should include:
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NIAS: How to identify the unidentified
- What are NIAS and why are they (regulatorily) important?;
- Identification of NIAS;
- Quantification of NIAS; and
- Recent advances.
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Q&A session
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Refreshment break
- Session four: Packaging
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Plastics recycling in food contact applications
- Market figures plastics;
- Plastics packaging save resources and energy; and
- Recycling instead of landfilling
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Environmental packaging marking requirements in Europe
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.
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Chemical migration in the context of sustainable food packaging
- Systematic approaches addressing chemical migration;
- Case studies on chemical migration illustrating evidence and knowledge gaps; and
- Integration of chemical safety and sustainability.
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Q&A session
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Close of day one and cocktail reception
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End of day one
