Keller and Heckman is pleased to announce that registration is now open for its annual Food Packaging Law Seminar, and new this year, the Pre-Conference Workshop on Chinese Requirements. Now in its 12th year, this comprehensive food packaging law course is designed to provide regulatory, scientific, and legal professionals with up-to-date information on the latest food packaging law developments. This year, we will cover the basics on EU and U.S. food-contact legislation and will provide updates on global regulations relating to food-contact materials.
Keller and Heckman is pleased to announce its 16th annual Chemical Control Law and Regulation Seminar, being held September 12-13, 2018 in Washington, DC.
Keller and Heckman is pleased to announce that registration is now open for its Food Packaging Law Seminar scheduled for 6-7 March 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. Now in its 11th consecutive year, this comprehensive course is designed for regulatory, scientific, and legal professionals so that they may keep up-to-date on the latest food packaging law developments. After setting the regulatory scene with the Basics on EU and U.S. Food-Contact Laws, this year’s program will cover the latest updates on global regulations relating to food-contact materials, including:
Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE) recently published a report on annual production, use, and recycling of flexible plastics in the European Union (EU). The report, Flexible Films Market in Europe: State of Play, identifies the key challenges to increasing the level of recycling of flexible plastics in the EU, in addition to providing suggestions to support the growth of the industry.
The European Food Safety Authority issued a scientific opinion that designates salicylic acid (FCM 121); styrene (FCM 193); and lauric acid, vinyl ester (FCM 436) as high priority candidates for re-evaluation. The scientific opinion was issued in response to a request from the European Commission (EC) to review the substances that are not assigned a specific migration limit (SML) in the Plastics Regulation, (EU) No 10/2011. These substances were covered by the generic SML of 60 mg/kg of food but that SML was removed under Regulation (EU) 2016/1416.
As of July 2020, cardboard and paper food contact material (FCM) containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) will be banned, unless the PFAS is separated from the food by a functional barrier to migration.
The European Commission (EC) has extended the timeline for finalizing any proposal to revise the current European Union (EU) legislation on Food Contact Materials (FCMs) to the fourth quarter of 2022, according to the EC’s recently published Farm to Fork Strategy.