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Marisa Padula, a Scientific Researcher in the Packaging Technology Center of Brazil’s Institute of Food Sciences and Technology (ITAL), will join Dr. Dennis Keefe, Director of FDA’s Office of Food Additive Safety, and Dr. Elena Emelianova, a Scientific Evaluator in Health Canada’s Food Packaging Materials and Incidental Additives Section, as a guest speaker at Keller and Heckman’s 18th annual Food Packaging Law Seminar.

China's National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment (CFSA) published a guidance book on the implementation of GB 9685-2016 on June 1, 2017. This guidance book, titled, GB 9685-2016 <Food Safety National Standard - Standard on the Uses of Additives in Food-Contact Materials and Articles> Implementation Guidance, is written in Chinese and has over 300 pages. It includes six chapters and four appendices:

Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) is working on a new positive list system for regulating food-contact materials that could be enacted as early as 2018. A draft report concerning the new framework is currently open for public consultation until April 15, 2017. The report is expected to be finalized on May 25 by the 8th Committee for reviewing the regulations on food utensils, containers, and packaging. Once finalized, the report will be published on MHLW’s website.

China’s National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) recently finalized a number of Standards applicable to food contact materials marketed in the People's Republic of China in its announcement No.

Keller and Heckman attorneys and scientists will be speaking at a seminar on worldwide regulation of food-contact materials (FCM).  Main Laws on FCM in the World Seminar is sponsored by the Italian Institute of Packaging and Keller and Heckman. Presenters from Keller and Heckman and the title of their presentation are:

Effective August 3, 2016, all foreign manufacturing facilities that produce food and food packaging to be sold or marketed in Korea must be registered. This applies to all facilities producing food; food additives, and food packaging.

China’s new Food Safety Law (FSL) became effective on October 1, 2015.   The law was passed earlier this year, in response to several high-profile food safety scandals and the need for China to harmonize with the global practice of food safety management. The new law includes a number of significant changes to China’s food regulations and new mechanisms to deepen the reforms.