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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finalized the first two of seven major rules under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).
The International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) Europe has published a guidance document that provides recommendations on conducting safety assessments of non-intentionally added substances (NIAS) in food-contact materials (FCMs). The publication, Guidance on Best Practices on the Risk Assessment of Non Intentionally Added Substances (NIAS) in Food Contact Materials and Articles, includes:
The European Food Safety Authority's (EFSA) Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes, Flavourings and Processing Aids (CEF) published a draft scientific opinion on recent developments in the risk assessment of chemicals in food and their potential impact on the safety assessments for food-contact materials.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Toxicology Program (NTP) issued notice of a public meeting being held on July 22, 2015 on the peer review of a Draft Report on Carcinogens (RoC) Monograph on Cobalt and Certain Cobalt Compounds. Cobalt was selected as a candidate substance for listing in the RoC following solicitation of public comment, and NTP approved the selection in 2014.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on May 13, 2015, that the currently available information does not support cancelling registered pesticide products containing the antimicrobial triclosan. The announcement was made in response to a Citizen Petition filed on January 14, 2010, by Food & Water Watch and Beyond Pesticides. During the comment period, which was extended until April 8, 2011, EPA received tens of thousands of letters or signatures in support of the ban in triclosan, and over 4000 in support of continued registration.
On April 25, 2015, China's amended Food Safety Law (FSL) passed by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. The amended law, which some are calling the most stringent food safety law ever passed in China, will enter into force on October 1, 2015. The official version of the law is available in Chinese here.
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