Enlargement and Integration workshop: "EU legislation and testing for the chemical safety of food contact material"
In the framework of the "Enlargement and Integration initiative", the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) organised a training workshop in the focus of covering the latest EU Directives and legislative requirements for food contact materials (FCM), and details of the experimental procedures for compliance testing against the requirements.
(Indicative) list of topics covered in this Workshop includes:
EU Directives and legislative requirements for FCM (E. Hoekstra)
Requirements for compliance for imports (C. Simoneau)
Active and Intelligent materials (E. Hoekstra)
Testing for compliance for plastics (C. Simoneau)
Migration modelling (E. Hoekstra)
The use of reduction factors for plastics and expression of results (E. Hoekstra)
Compliance: expression of results (E. Hoekstra)
esting compliance for materials other than plastics (C. Simoneau)
Testing for dry foods- tests with the new simulant Tenax (N. Jakubowska)
Method validation (C. Simoneau)
Reference materials and proficiency testing programmes (C. Simoneau)
Lab visit- overall migration (immersion, cells), testing with Tenax
Testing kitchenware: worked example (C. Simoneau)
Q&A, wrap up session
SIMONEAU Catherine;
HOEKSTRA Eddo;
JAKUBOWSKA Natalia;
2012-12-20
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC76765
978-92-79-27392-6,
1831-9424,
EUR 25599 EN,
OP LB-NA-25599-EN-N,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC76765,
10.2788/67212,
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