US Food Contact Regulation: Easier Compliance for Adhesives & Coatings

Checking for compliance of your food contact materials at the very end of the process = longer time to market & higher costs! To prevent future problems with non-compliant products, join this course and:

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1. Keep up on current FDA food contact legislations impacting coatings & adhesives: new requirements, positive lists, migration limits…


2. Prevent future liability issues by timely running appropriate tests (end tests and/or migration test) to determine compliance


3. Lower time & cost needed to develop new materials for food contact with smart tips for ingredient selection, R&D practice, preparation of FCN…

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R&D people, quality managers, sales people and buyers of food contact materials... throughout the supply chain – from raw material producers to end-users.

The following sections will be covered during the session:

• Introduction to US FDA regulation of Food Contact Materials

• Structure of US FDA regulations of FCM
  • General requirements
  • Specific requirements for adhesives and coatings
  • Other “positive lists” (Where to find them?...)


• Determining compliance of FCM & what it means for R&D practice
  • Compositional compliance
  • Compliance with use conditions
  • End tests specifications


• Development of new materials for food contact – Impact on R&D practices:
  • Making an “intelligent choice” of a new substance to be used in the manufacture of a new material
  • Data necessary for determination of the safe use of a new food contact substance
  • Information requirement for Food Contact Notification, FCN


• 30 mins Q&A - Interact live/ ask questions directly from the expert!

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