Keller and Heckman Partners Jeff Keithline and Rachida Semail will be speaking at Smithers Pira’s Plastics and Paper in Contact with Foodstuffs 2017 seminar, to be held in Berlin, Germany. Mr. Keithline’s presentation is titled, “Legislation of food contact materials in China,” and Ms. Semail’s presentation is titled, “EU new model or regulating printed food contact materials.”

Keller and Heckman is one of the sponsors for this seminar. More information, including how to register, can be found here.

Keller and Heckman Associate Mark Thompson will give two presentations as part of the Packaging & Food Contact Materials Forum at the Fibre Value Chain 2017 Conference. He will speak on "Packaging Unwrapped: Chinese regulation of food-contact paper" and "Recycled Paper requirements in the US: Untangling the FDA." 

China’s revised Additives Standard (GB 9685 Standard on the Uses of Additives in Food-Contact Materials and Articles) and the General Safety Standard (GB 4806.1 Standard on General Safety Requirements for Food-Contact Materials and Articles) took effect on October 19, 2017. 

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:

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.

Effective March 2016, China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) has imposed disinsection requirements on all shipments coming from Zika-affected countries and regions.  AQSIQ continues to maintain and update its list of Zika-affected areas, and the United States was added to that list on August 5, 2016.   With this in mind, staff from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, including officials from the U.S.

China's National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) announced online on June 8, 2016, that 23 food packaging materials had passed the safety evaluation review by the NHFPC expert panel and have received final clearance. Specifically, the final clearances are for:

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.