Event overview
This is the fifth in a series of ten webinars that will address food contact material (FCM) regulations and compliance, in key markets around the globe. (The remaining five will take place in the second half of the year from mid-October.)
Among the countries and regions we will be looking at in the series are the EU, Switzerland (not an EU member state), the US, China, Canada, the Mercosur countries and Japan.. Each webinar lasts an hour and allows time for attendees to ask questions.
Your guide for all ten webinars will be Dr Ioan Paraschiv, regulatory affairs manager at knoell NL.
The fifth webinar will look at Switzerland and its law the Swiss Ordinance on Food and Commodities that affects FCMs and articles. Before taking a deep dive into the regulation, we will consider how it defines FCMs.
This will be followed by the key regulatory requirements affecting them. Among the topics for discussion will be the most recent amendment to the Swiss Ordinance on Materials and Articles intended to come in contact with food (SR 817.023.21) – Annex 10 for printing inks used in food contact applications, 1 December 2019. Additionally, the process of updating Part B of Annex 10 will be discussed.
By attending this webinar, you will learn:
- which regulatory requirements apply in Switzerland to the FCMs you are interested in, including plastics (Annex 2), printing inks (Annex 10), silicone articles (Annex 9);
- which substances have already been approved in the current Swiss Ordinance on FCMs;
- which are the steps for a new FCM substance petition under SR 817.023.21, at the Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office (FSVO);
- which migration testing conditions are to be applied, with case studies;
- how to carry out a worst-case calculation (WCC) in cases of missing experimental or theoretical (modelling) migration data;
- what the specifications are for certain key-listed FCM substances with respect to their specific migration limit (SML), as well as the overall migration limit (OML);
- what the key steps are when considering the risk assessment of FCM substances migrating into food from an FCM or food contact article; and
- how to demonstrate compliance with food contact applications.
More webinars in this series:
Canadian Regulations on Food Contact Materials & Compliance - 27 October
Chinese Regulations on Food Contact Materials & Compliance - 10 November
How to Prepare a Declaration of Compliance for Food Contact Materials - 24 November
Risk Assessment of IAS & NIAS Migrating from Food Contact Materials and Articles - 8 December
Japanese Regulations on Food Contact Materials & Compliance - 15 December