Food Contact Regulations USA 2023

VIRTUAL PRESENTATION

• Upcoming China National Standards for printing inks, adhesives, plastic etc.
• Main points of revision of GB 4806.1
• Other ongoing work on food contact standards in China

Lei Zhu

Director, Food Safety Standard Division I, China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, China

• Updates on regulatory situation for food contact materials in Latin America
• Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) Food Contact Regulations
• Information on how the food contact regulations in Latin America compare to those in other regions

Caio Prado

Regulatory Affairs & Sustainability Leader, Sealed Air

• Canadian food safety system and food packaging materials regulations
• Submission, review process, and our main technical requests
• Updates and future perspectives of food packaging materials regulations in Canada

Zhongwen Wang

Scientific Evaluator, Food Packaging Materials and Incidental Additives Section, Health Canada

• Current status of the EU proposal for ecodesign for sustainable products
• Legal provisions related to sustainability in EU food contact regulations
• Potential changes and what to expect

Ruxandra Cana

Partner, Steptoe LLP

• Recycling of plastics for food contact is one of the most important and dynamic areas of sustainable packaging.  In the last three decades, FDA has reviewed more than 300 voluntary submissions for plastics recycling processes, the majority of which were for PET. 
• Most recently, an increasing number of submissions for polyolefins have been received and evaluated. 
• The presentation will focus on FDA’s efforts at updating the current chemistry guidance for use of recycling plastics for food contact to incorporate information we have learned from PET and discuss new challenges presented by polyolefins.

Allan Bailey

Branch Chief, Chemistry Review Branch, Division of Food Contact Substances, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

• Compliance and Product Stewardship as a piece of the sustainability puzzle
• Challenges in compliance of eco-alternative materials compared to traditional and virgin materials
• Case study: leveraging sustainable materials in food contact applications to promote the circular economy and make a difference

Jeff Buczynski

Senior Manager, Product Stewardship, Huhtamaki

• U.S. Federal Trade Commission reviews Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims (Green Guides)
• State legislative and regulatory restrictions on claims
• Litigation and enforcement trends

Jean-Cyril (JC) Walker

Partner, Keller and Heckman, USA