Belgium recently notified the European Commission (EC) of its draft Royal Order on the marketing of substances manufactured to nano-particle scale (notification number 2013/369/B). The Draft Royal Order proposes:
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) lowered estimates for human exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) from those previously adopted in 2006, in a draft opinion issued July 25, 2013. The lower estimates resulted from new information submitted in response to an EFSA call for data. The estimates were derived by experts on EFSA's Scientific Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes, Flavourings and Processing Aids (CEF Panel), through exposure modelling and analysis of human biomonitoring data (from urine samples).
Croatia became the European Union's (EU) 28th Member State on July 1, 2013. As a prerequisite to joining the EU, new Member States have to adopt the full body of legislation in place in the EU (the so-called "acquis communautaire"), including all EU regulations on food contact-materials.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) announced another delay in adoption of its scientific opinion on bisphenol A (BPA) after it determined that more time was needed to evaluate key health effects identified in animal studies, and their potential relationship to human health. The opinion was originally scheduled to be published in May 2013, but was later delayed until November 2013. EFSA has now decided that it will instead hold a two-stage public consultation period, thereby extending the final adoption of its scientific opinion to 2014.
Keller and Heckman will host its annual Food Packaging Law Seminar on October 24 - 25, 2012, in Arlington, VA. This highly-acclaimed, annual seminar helps attendees keep up-to-date on new global food packaging laws, provides a review of U.S. and European Union (EU) packaging regulations, and offers in-depth coverage of specific topics. This year, Keller and Heckman will host Jason Aungst, Ph.D., a Supervisory Toxicologist at FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, as a luncheon speaker.
The European Commission (EC) proposed amending the European Union (EU) Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (94/62/EC) to provide additional explanation on what is considered packaging under the law. Article 3(1) of the Directive includes a generic definition of packaging and criteria for interpretation of what is packaging, while Annex I provides examples of items considered packaging under the definition.