COW2015 will be held April 27-30, 2015
Dietary exposure studies and uncertainties
ILSI Europe organised a workshop on Total Diet Studies and held a workshop on uncertainties in dietary exposure assessment
Food Packaging Forum Annual Workshop (Hybrid Event)
Workshop on Risk Assessment and Management for Food Contact Materials (FCM)
Workshop finds knowledge gaps around MOH in food
Trends in Food Science & Technology publishes outcome from multistakeholder workshop by International Life Science Institute “to identify knowledge gaps in analytical methods, assessment of exposure, hazard characterization, and risk assessment of mineral oil hydrocarbons (MOH);” highlights need for standardization of MOH measurements in food, finds few studies look at packaging material or foods packaged in materials other than paperboard
Food Contact Materials Regulation Workshop
Food Packaging Forum 11th Annual Workshop
U.S. Senate approves TSCA reform bill
Udall-Vitter chemical safety bill approved by U.S. Senate; House and Senate must now unify TSCA reform bills to create new U.S. chemical safety law
Guidance for polyurethanes in food contact materials
American Chemistry Council issues guidance for the use of polyurethanes in food contact applications; provides overview of relevant rules and regulations
Several studies determine chemical migration from food packaging
Researchers from several European and Chinese institutions develop methods to explore chemicals in food contact materials (FCMs); report styrene migration from different polystyrene FCMs into several food matrices; detect photoinitiators in paper FCMs and chlorinated paraffins in green tea and its packaging; find irradiation treatment of metalized polypropylene to reduce migration of tested chemicals