FDA Updates Guidance on Recycled Plastics in Food Packaging

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated its guidance on the use of recycled plastics in food packaging.Guidance for Industry: Use of Recycled Plastics in Food Packaging (Chemistry Considerations) was first issued in August 2006. The July 2021 update includes “Paperwork Reduction Act information and non-substantive formatting and editing revisions.”

For more information on FDA’s regulation of recycled plastics for food packaging, see the PackagingLaw.com article, A Lot to Digest: U.S. Recycled Plastics Food-Contact Regulations.