Highlights

Risk management and risk assessment updates

• European Union update on food contact materials (FCM)
• EFSA’s recent activities in the area of FCM
• European monitoring on MOH

Enforcement landscape

• Danish control and inspection of FCM establishments – organisation and performance of the inspection

Analytics for non-harmonised FCM

• Barriers of activated carbon to protect the food against contamination from recycled paperboard
• Test methods for FCM: current technical challenges and developments 

Alternatives to per- and polyfluorinated substances

• Safety and compliance of alternative coatings 

Toxicological tests/bioassay methods

• Can bioassays replace the toxicity tests called for in the tiered EFSA approach to risk assessment of FCM?

Who do you meet?

Groups that should take part:

Managing directors, boards of directors, managers, consultants and scientists in the fields of: 

• Analysis 
• Quality assurance & control 
• Product safety 
• Raw material control 
• Regulatory affairs & support 
• Research & development 
• Toxicology

Sectors that should take part: 

• Food and drink industry
• Food trade 
• Packaging industry 
• Food inspection offices 
• Laboratories 
• Research institutes 
• Authorities 
• Professional associations