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On 1 June 2025, Japan’s Positive List (PL) for FCMs came into force. Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency (CAA) releases the manual for introduction to the positive list on the portal on the same day. Japan's Positive List (PL) System regulates synthe

The European Commission adopted Regulation (EU) 2025/351 on 19 February 2025, which introduces significant amendments to Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 on plastic materials and articles intended as food contact materials (FCMs). The updated rules were pu

In the field of food safety, regulations play a key role in protecting public health and ensuring the integrity of consumables. Recently, Brazil introduced a new regulation, RDC No. 854/2024, which focuses on metallic materials in contact with food.

FCMs regulations are fast-moving to improve the protection of public health. Food contact materials (FCMs) refer to all materials and articles intended to come into contact with food, for example, packaging and containers, machinery to process fo

The Australian Department of Health (DOH) announced guidance for manufacturers and importers of chemicals that have an end-use in food-contact articles. The guidance shares six steps to categorize food-contact chemicals as “exempted”, “reported

On the 17th of September 2021, India overturned its ban of recycled plastic in 2018, now allowing the use of recycled plastic in Food Contact Materials (FCMs). The exception to the new rule is that it doesn’t include chemical migration limits, that

The new Resolution 589/2021 entered into force in Brazil in January, 2022,. The National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) Resolution revises three pieces of national legislation on food contact materials and articles:·       Resolution

On February 5, 2024, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) notified the World Trade Organization (WTO) of an interim standard for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in municipal biosolids imported or sold in Canada as fertilizers. The de

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) amended the Food Safety and Standards (Packaging) Regulations 2018, allowing for the use of recycled plastics in food contact materials (FCM) with certain restrictions. The update clarifies the

To prevent and handle the environmental and health concerns arising from the use of the substance; polyvinyl chloride (PVC) in Food Contact Materials (FCMs), Taiwanese authority is making efforts to ban the production, import, and sale of FCMs that c

On April 22, 2022, China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment (CFSA) announced a consultation notice on approving two new resins used in food contact materials and an expanded use of one food contact material additive.   The concer

Thailand published some new requirements regarding Food Contact Materials (FCMs) which will enter into force on January 3, 2023. The Thai Industrial Standards Institute (TISI) published these five mandatory standards in the Royal Gazette on April 8,

After identifying 388 Food Contact Chemicals (FCCs) as “of concern” substances, Swiss researchers from the Food Packaging Forum (FPF) called for such substances to be phased out. These substances that are listed as being “intentionally added”

Ukrainian Ministry of Health has published a draft proposal to ban the chemical triclosan in production of plastic and food contact materials. Triclosan is an anti-bacterial chemical commonly used in kitchenware. The draft proposal suggests that a tr

On 31 August 2022 a regulation entitled “Food Safety and Standards (Packaging) Second Amendment Regulations, 2022.” was published and enforced by The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI). This regulation sets migration limits f

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In September, the ministry of natural resources and environment open the public consultation for the second draft of the national technical regulation proposing thresholds for several persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in raw materials, materials,

The second Draft of the National Technical Regulation on Thresholds for Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in Articles, Products, Commodities, and Equipment was issued by Vietnam's Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) on 15 Septemb

Background  The European Parliament has long believed that heavy metal pollution must not be made worse by recycling polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Due to the voluntary commitment of the PVC industry in the EU, lead in PVC has been phased out in the E

On 26 December 2022, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) of Japan released a notice containing new requirements for several substances to its food contact materials (FCMs) positive list for polymers. On April 2020, the ministry publ