For the past 5 years, ZWE’s Catalonian member Rezero has been campaigning on the dangers and harmful effects of plastics on human health (besides all the harm it does to our environment). This late March, they saw their ambitions become reality through the ban on food packaging chemicals in the Spanish Waste Law.
Major finding: Participants reduce the complexity of FCM safety through different mechanisms. • 4 focus groups with a duration of 120 minutes each • in 4 cities in Germany (Berlin, Leipzig, Hamburg and Mannheim) • with 30 consumers interviewed in total • not a representative sample • conducted in September 2021
Since publishing the European Green Deal in December 2019, the EU is in a modus operandi for a systemic change. The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability (CSS) adopted a year later, announced that it would help fight toxic chemicals and pollution that is detrimental to both human health and ecosystems. If it fulfills this promise – it will be remembered … Zero Waste Europe: How the EU chemicals strategy can help to make our food packaging toxic-free
28 civil society organisations across Europe sent an open letter to the EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Stella Kyriakides, stating their concerns about some of the proposals in the draft new Regulation concerning the placing on the market of plastic materials and articles with recycled/secondary plastic content intended for use in contact with … Open letter on Hazardous Chemicals and Food Safety – recycled plastic in food packaging (updated rules)
For the third time since 2015, foodwatch has commissioned laboratory tests to examine staple foods on mineral oil. The results show that everyday foods are still contaminated with harmful mineral oil hydrocarbons and in some cases even to a considerable high extent. Of the products tested this year and bought in France, Germany, the Netherlands, … foodwatch: Toxic Mineral Oil in Food
These guidelines aim to inform consumers about the correct use of food contact materials (FCMs) and the possible safety issues triggered by their misuse. Consumers use different types of packaging on a daily basis, without knowing the safest and better conditions of use, and which actions to avoid. Due to difficulties to track and monitor … SAFE: Food Contact Material Guidelines for Consumers
VOICE has established, using chemical analysis, the presence of chemicals of concern in commonly available food contact materials (FCMs), with implications around contamination of waste streams and the integrity of the circular economy here in Ireland.
In our latest publication, Sustainable food contact materials in the European healthcare sector, we have gathered information on the health and environmental risks of commonly used FCMs, including plastics, paper, board, and bio-based materials. We also assess the regulatory shortcomings that enable these risks, and provide recommendations for healthcare food services and policy makers to reduce them.
The aim of this report is to give a brief overview of the most common materials used in food contact, including known or potential problems, as well as current legislation within EU.
vzbv welcomes the initiative taken by the European Commission to revise the regulatory system for food contact materials (FCMs) at European level and to shift the focus onto the final product. This document summarizes vzbv’s demands.
