Food Contact Regulations USA 2020

• Continuing concerns: GRAS, chemical-specific bans, supply chain communication
• State initiatives
• What’s on the food contact horizon?

Deborah Attwood

Associate, Steptoe

• Overview of the FDA’s food contact notification program
• Updates on the CFSAN Online Submission Module (COSM)

Elizabeth Petro

Lead Consumer Safety Officer, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, USA

• Non-intentionally added substances (NIAS) in the context of Food Contact Material (FCM) Regulations in EU
• Migration of NIAS from FCM or Food Contact Articles (FCA)
• Identification and quantification of NIAS – challenges aspects
• Risk assessment of NIAS migrating from FCM/ FCA
• Key regulatory aspects on using available tox data/ information, and establish safety levels

Ioan Paraschiv, PhD

Group Leader, Global Food & Food Contact Materials (FFCM) Division, Knoell, Netherlands

• Learn about current concerns with PFAS in food packaging from research done by the Center for Environmental Health and their engagement with a wide range of public and private purchasers.
• As more jurisdictions adopt zero waste goals, they are encountering challenges with single-use food service ware products. This session will explore the types of alternatives that are being recommended for and sought out by institutional purchasers

Sue Chiang

Food Program Director, Center for Environmental Health

• Surveying the landscape of regulated and non-regulated inks
• Differentiating direct and non-direct food contact inks
• Practical approaches to establishing food contact compliance of inks

Gregory V. Pace PhD, MS

Consultant, Regulatory and Product Stewardship, Gregory V. Pace Ph.D. LLC

• Review of the challenges for food safety in packaging
• What can we learn?
• What can be done to address future challenges for food packaging?

Neil Finley

Head of Global Food Safety, Henkel Adhesives, UK

• What is “clean packaging” and why is it important?
• What are some of the regulatory changes resulting from this movement?
• What are some of the strategies that major brands are engaging in to address this concern?

Presentation prepared by: Weldon Williams, Sr. Director, Quality Assurance, Packaging, HAVI, USA

Deborah Attwood

Associate, Steptoe

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