On June 4, 2015, the Nordic Council of Ministers published a guidance document pertaining to food-contact materials composed of metals and alloys that are intended for use in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. (Denmark, Finland, and Sweden are EU Member States, and Iceland and Norway are associated with the EU through the European Economic Agreement.)

As many U.S. companies struggle to meet the conflict minerals reporting requirements imposed by U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the European Parliament voted to require EU importers of tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold and downstream users to be certified that they also do not fuel conflicts and human rights abuses in conflict areas.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has determined that current dietary exposures to acrylamide are not of concern with respect to non-neoplastic effects, however, there may be concern for neoplastic effects based on animal evidence. These findings are part of a scientific opinion on acrylamide in food, published on June 4, 2015, by the EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM) in response to a request from the European Commission.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) recommended that the European Commission reconsider the specific migration limit (SML) for zinc based on consumer exposure from sources other than food-contact materials. This recommendation was made by the EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes, Flavourings and Processing Aids (CEF Panel) as part of a scientific opinion on nano forms of zinc oxide for food-contact.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) announced on March 25, 2015, that it had updated its January 2015 scientific opinion on bisphenol A (BPA) to note that there is no health concern from BPA at the estimated levels of exposure in the diet generally, and there is a low health concern from aggregated exposure. In January, EFSA had announced that exposure to BPA from the diet and other sources was considerably under the safe level, and therefore, was not a public health risk

The German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, or Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung (BfR), announced its endorsement of the European Food Safety Authority's (EFSA) January 2015 scientific opinion that exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA) is not a public health risk. In BfR communication No.

The Threshold of Toxicological Concern (TTC) approach as currently applied is a "valid, science-based screening tool useful for the prioriti[z]ation of chemicals and for more general applications in chemical risk assessment," according to a recently published European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)/World Health Organization (WHO) draft report.

The Fifth Amendment to the Plastics Regulation, (EU) No. 2015/174, was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on February 6 and will enter into force on February 26.

Exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA) from the diet and other sources is considerably under the safe level and therefore is not a public health risk, according to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). EFSA's scientific opinion, published January 21, 2015, is based on a comprehensive re-evaluation of BPA conducted by EFSA's Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes, Flavourings and Processing Aids (CEF Panel).

The European Chemicals Agency's (ECHA) Member State Committee (MSC) unanimously agreed to identify bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP) as a substance of very high concern (SVHC) due to its endocrine disrupting properties in the environment. This action is being taken under the European Union's Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical (REACH) Regulation.