Global Food Contact Materials Regulations

This module will look at the Korean food contact material regulations that directly affect FCMs, and before the webinar delves into these regulations, the session will look at how FCMs are defined in Korea under the Food Sanitation Act (FSA).
In Korea, where food contact end-products are regulated, we will introduce the requirements to be met by food utensils, containers and packaging used for sales or business purposes and the latest developments in the regulations. We will also introduce how recycled plastics are managed in Korea.

We will also introduce India's FCM regulations and how to declare the recycling process.

During this module, you will learn about:

• which standards and specifications for UCPs apply in South Korea;
• What are the restricted harmful substances (negative list) in Korean food contact materials？
• How are new food contact materials or products marketed in Korean?
• What is India's definition of food contact materials? What materials are managed?
• What is the official regulation of colourants for food contact in India?

Ms Liu Hui, MSc

Regulatory Affairs Manager, Food Contact Materials, knoell Shanghai, China

This session will look at the steps that should be taken to assess the risk of FCM-substances that migrate into food, under foreseeable conditions of use. 

We will look at the differences between the intentionally and non intentionally added substances (IAS and Nias). Then examine when a given IAS or Nias can be self-risk assessed, and when industry should consider, for an IAS, an application to a competent authority.

• which countries/regions, in the above mentioned markets allow self-risk assessments for an IAS and/or Nias migrating into food from a FCM;
• when there is no need for a (self) risk assessment of migrating substances into food from FCM;
• what to do when it is not possible to carry out a self-risk assessment, and when a risk assessment must be provided as part of a petitioning process for including a new FCM-substance on a given positive list in a given key market;
• what type of information (for example physico-chemical, (eco) toxicological) is needed to carry out the (self) risk assessment of an IAS or Nias migrating into food;
• when read-across can be used in the (self) risk assessment of an IAS and Nias migrating into food from an FCM;
• when a threshold of toxicological concern (TTC) approach can be used in the (self) risk assessment of an IAS or Nias migrating into food; and
• when and which specific (quantitative) structure-activity relationship (Qsar) tools can be used in the (self) risk assessment of an IAS or Nias migrating into food from a FCM.

Dr Alastair Mak, PhD

Toxicologist, Environmental and Human Toxicology, Knoell USA