Food Contact Regulations Asia 2023

PRE-RECORDED PRESENTATION

• The latest progress of food safety standard system for food contact materials in China; and
• Important modifications and development trends of FC food safety standards.

Hong Zhang

Research Associate, China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, China

• Top regulatory challenges for the industries; and
• Ways forward to ensure product safety & compliance.

Nick Cheng

Manager – Food Contact materials, Business Stream Products, Asia Pacific and Greater China Region, TUV Rheinland Japan Ltd.

• Brief overview of food-contact regulations in Asia Pacific countries;
• Recent update of regulations on recycled plastics; and
• Speculation on future development.

Chen Hu

Scientist, Keller and Heckman LLP, Shanghai Representative Office

• Overview of food regulations structure and related regulations in Thailand;
• Ministry of Public Health Notification No. 92: ceramic container, enamelled container;
• Ministry of Public Health Notification No. 435: plastic container;
• Ministry of Public Health Notification No. 369: feeding bottle container;
• Thai Industrial Standards (TIS) for Food Contact Materials (FCM); and
• 2022 -2023 updates.

Piyatida (Tung) Pukclai

Asia-Pacific Business Development & Regulatory Policy Lead, knoell, Thailand

• Australian industrial chemicals introduction scheme – reporting requirements;
• Food standards Australia New Zealand; and
• Food packaging industry updates.

Janine Hall

Compliance Officer/Food Contact Specialist, AP Colorants, Australia

• Overview of FCM regulation in Japan;
• New challenges to the positive list system; and
• Development of the positive list system.

Nick Cheng

Manager – Food Contact materials, Business Stream Products, Asia Pacific and Greater China Region, TUV Rheinland Japan Ltd.

• A guidance to the nation’s voluntary certification of food contact products;
• Procedural and specification requirements for food contact products used in the preparation, processing, packaging, storage, delivery or exposure of food; and
• Application criteria and procedures for application.

Khairul Hazwan

Team Lead – Sales, SGS (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd

• food contact material related regulation;
• main regulations on food contact;
• material standards; and
• reminder

Junho Lee

Director, CIRS Group Korea, South Korea

• Food contact material management: background;
• Food contact material management: regulatory update; and
• Case study & the future of enforcement.

Ken Liu

Partner, ERM Taiwan

• How to introduce food contact substance into China?;
• What toxicological data requires;
• How to do the petition?; and
• Case experiences sharing.

Rainbow Zhang

Ph.D, Diplomat of Certified Toxicologist, CST General Manager, Intertek ASSURIS China

VIRTUAL PRESENTATION

• The updates of Chinese regulations for food contact paper and wood & bamboo;
• The emerging risk posed by the food contact paper; and
• The issues related to the compliance of food contact wood & bamboo.

Marco Zhong

Director, National reference laboratory for food contact materials (Guangdong), IQTC, China

• Adhesives behind food contact materials;
• How to monitor & eliminate the substance of interest; and
• Disclosure through declaration of compliance

Wen-Gie Siew

Regional Product Safety & Regulatory Affairs, Henkel Adhesive Technologies - Asia Pacific