Sentences with phrase «food contact materials»

This year's agenda will to help attendees manage regulatory compliance for food contact materials across a global packaging value chain.

Older plastics technologies limited food companies to using only new plastic to comply with regulations for direct food contact materials.

The testing protocols used are specific to home use and incorporate all applicable product quality, performance and food contact material regulations.

Officials also urged pregnant and breastfeeding women to also avoid food contact materials made with the chemical.

-LSB-...] FDA has yet to change their policy on the chemical in food contact materials.

The Food Packaging Forum is holding a session on scientific controversies around the safety of food contact materials (FCMs) at the 2014 European Symposium on Food Safety taking place May 7 - 9, 2014 in Budapest, Hungary.

And the FDA still refuses to require removal from food contact materials?!

Author of the review, Jane Muncke, didn't mince words when issuing her findings, calling into question the current means of estimating the true level of exposure to EDC's through food contact materials.

Intertek is offering a complimentary webinar series designed to provide the latest updates on regulatory compliance and food contact materials testing, to support clients in meeting the new European regulatory requirements for plastic food packaging.

Presentations will include «The role of packaging in optimising quality», «EU food contact material rules», «Open surgery time - meet the experts», «Understanding migration testing» and «Food packaging: shape colour and texture».

Phthalates, as you know, have been ordered removed from children's goods, which includes food contact materials.

Despite current lack of European Law regulating leaching of elements from metallic food contact materials, the Council of Europe resolved in 2013 that contaminants «must not be released in quantities which could endanger human health» and specifies limits for and methods of testing metals released into food.

Non-targeted multi-component analytical surveillance of plastic food contact materials: identification of substances not included in EU positive lists and their risk assessment.

DuPont is a leader in food contact materials, with the industry's most extensive engineering thermoplastic portfolio adhering to both European Food Contact and FDA (Food and Drug Administration) regulations for food safety.

The new trays are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as direct food contact materials.

Videos and presentations now online: Find the proceedings of the 5th Food Packaging Forum Workshop on «Scientific challenges in the risk assessment of food contact materials» here

Suciu et al 2013 «Recycled paper — paperboard for food contact materials: Contaminants suspected and migration into foods and food simulant» studies contaminants in recycled paper and paperboard, and find «BPA was the only substance present in all the samples».

They provide in - depth background information about different topics pertinent to food contact materials and health.

Topics will cover an array of subjects, from packaging defects and food labelling updates, through to food contact materials and openability.

The winner will be awarded a free place on the Campden BRI «Food contact materials» seminar, worth over # 300.

>> Read the complete research study: Endocrine disrupting chemicals and other substances of concern in food contact materials: An updated review of exposure, effect and risk assessment in the Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Emily Barrett of Environmental Health Perspectives recently provided a great synopsis of an updated review of food contact materials and their potential to leach endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDC's) into our food.

Substances of concern, like endocrine disrupting chemicals, are widely used in food contact materials

The FDA released a draft report in 2008 that found BPA was safe in food contact materials.

The FDA has yet to change their policy on the chemical in food contact materials.