Webinar
Putting the EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability into action: Addressing EDCs and mixtures
Second webinar within Food Packaging Forum's Spring 2021 webinar series on challenges and opportunities for food contact materials within the EU's Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability; features two expert talks on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and chemical mixtures
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Putting the EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability into action: Setting the scene
First webinar within Food Packaging Forum's Spring 2021 webinar series on challenges and opportunities for food contact materials within the EU's Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability; features two expert talks on hazardous chemicals and a history of safe and sustainable chemistry to support implementation of the strategy
Presentation
Towards safe and sustainable food contact materials in European healthcare
Health Care Without Harm holds webinar featuring presentation from the Food Packaging Forum; focuses on risks posed by hazardous substances in food contact materials in the health care sector, shares best practices for addressing these through procurement
Presentation
Meet the experts series: Plastics and health
Race for Water Foundation holds webinar featuring presentation from the Food Packging Forum; focuses on chemicals present in plastics, their toxicities, migration potential into food; discusses ongoing policy challenges and potential next steps
Panel Discussion
Will the EU be ready for all packaging to be sustainable by 2030?
Politico holds high-level panel discussion featuring Food Packging Forum; focuses on sustainable packaging in the EU; discusses ongoing policy challenges and potential next steps
Presentation
Chemical safety aspects for commonly used plastics
Food Packging Forum presentation at AIMPLAS okPlast conference provides overview of chemical safety aspects of commonly used plastics relevant for the circular economy
Webinar
Novel bioassays to improve FCM safety testing
Food Packaging Forum webinar features presentation from Alan Bergmann of the Swiss Centre for Applied Ecotoxicology on recent research developing novel bioassays to improve testing of food contact materials (FCMs); method improves sensitivity of detecting estrogenicity within complex mixtures of chemicals
Presentation
Food packaging, reuse, and COVID-19
Food Packaging Forum presentation provides an overview of the multi-stakeholder debate related to the safety of reusable food packaging during the COVID-19 pandemic; reviews calls for action from industry associations, NGOs, and recommendations from governments
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Non-monotonicity of BPA
Webinar features presentation from researchers at Tufts University discussing published study observing non-monotonic dose-responses in mammary gland development of rats from exposure to bisphenol A (BPA)
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Key characteristics for identifying hazardous chemicals
Martyn Smith from UC Berkeley presents on the development of sets of key characteristics to help identify hazardous chemicals; international working group of experts focuses on carcinogens, male and female reproductive toxicants, expanding work on other toxicants
