Check out the new factsheets from CHEM Trust on harmful chemicals in food contact materials (FCMs). The factsheets focus on 5 countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Spain) and feature information on studies that have found harmful chemicals in food packaging, biomonitoring studies, public perceptions and actions taken.
The Food Packaging Forum has published five factsheets summarising the applications, material properties, chemical safety, and end-of-life options for the most common food packaging materials: plastic; paper and board; metal; glass; and multimaterial. The factsheets explain why and how material properties have an influence on the chemical safety as well as the recyclability. See the factsheets here.
Food packaging is highly essential for protecting and handling food from farm to fork. However, packaging is also a source of chemical contamination of food. For more information, see this factsheet from the Food Packaging Forum. The fact sheet is available in 18 different languages.
PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are a class of thousands of “forever chemicals” constituting a global threat to public and environmental health.1
FCM producers are not required to assess – let alone minimise – potential food contaminants released from their packaging materials or products. Overall, this situation is unacceptable, and calls for a rethink of the EU’s FCM legislation to better protect European consumers.
