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ZWE: Ensuring safe recycled content in food packaging: ambition vs reality

A new report from Zero Waste Europe focuses on safe recycled content in food packaging. When it comes to Food Contact Materials (FCMs), the use of recycled content potentially creates new pathways through which humans can be exposed to hazardous chemicals in contaminated recycled material flows. Today, recycling technologies have not proved to be able to … ZWE: Ensuring safe recycled content in food packaging: ambition vs reality

BEUC: Silicone bakeware can add unwanted substances to cookies and cakes, consumer groups find

A joint study by 10 members of BEUC (The European Consumer Organisation) suggests that silicone cookware may be contaminating our baking with unwanted chemicals. Silicone is a popular material for baking due to its non-stick properties and ability to withstand high temperatures. Forty-four different silicone moulds from across the EU were tested. 23% of products … BEUC: Silicone bakeware can add unwanted substances to cookies and cakes, consumer groups find

Food Safety: More Research Needed on Exposure to, Toxicity of Microplastics in Food

There are significant knowledge gaps regarding the presence of nano- and microplastics in foods and their harmful effects on human health, according to a report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The document aims to support much-needed future exposure assessments, as well as the development of appropriate legislation and guidance documents on food production, processing, distribution, and consumption in relation to nano- and microplastics contamination.

NLR: MOAH in Food: New October Statement Poses Broader Issues for Operators in the Food and Food Contact Materials Supply Chain in EU
Mineral oil aromatic hydrocarbons (MOAH) are increasingly becoming a topic of concern for food and food contact material operators in the European Union. Following a report by an NGO, the European Commission and Member States (through the SCoPAFF committee) issued a statement in April 2022, defining non-legally binding thresholds for MOAH in food products. A … NLR: MOAH in Food: New October Statement Poses Broader Issues for Operators in the Food and Food Contact Materials Supply Chain in EU

Enviro. Journal: How chemicals from plastic packaging are contaminating food
Jane Muncke, Managing Director and Chief Scientific Officer at the Food Packaging Forum (FPF), a not-for-profit foundation for science communication and scientific research, explains how chemicals are transmitted to food and beverages and how the packaging industry can become more sustainable.

ENDS Europe: Campaigners urge PFAS ban, warn delays will cause ‘massive pollution’
More than 50 civil society organisations have signed a manifesto urging the European Commission and EU member states to urgently ban PFAS, hazardous substances also known as ‘forever chemicals’ due to their persistence in the human body and the environment.

Chemical Watch: EU rules for recycled plastics in FCMs raise exposure concerns
NGOs are questioning whether new EU legislation, which enables the use of recycled plastics in food contact materials (FCMs) with less regulatory scrutiny, can adequately protect consumers from exposure to hazardous chemicals.

ENDS Europe: Commission consults on chemicals clamp-down in food packaging
The European Commission has launched a public consultation on how to cut the health and environmental impact of hazardous chemicals in materials intended to come into contact with food.

EHN: What we know about PFAS in our food
Amid inadequate testing and a lack of regulation, we’re all eating “forever chemicals.”