European Food Contact Plastics Webinar 2021

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Polymer Comply Europe (PCE) is pleased to announce its next Live Webinar on European Food Contact Plastics, organised on behalf of European Plastics Converters (EuPC) and Food Contact Regulatory Experts Panel (FREP).

The live webinar will take place on the 12th of October 2021 between 09.00 - 12.00 CET.

Agenda

  • Welcome
    Martin Policar, EuPC
  • Setting the scene on food contact plastics in the EU
    Dario Dainelli, Food Contact Regulatory Experts Panel, PCE
  • New regulation for recycling of plastics for food contact
    Bastiaan Schupp, DG Santé, European Commission
  • Overview of the evaluation and revision of the EU FCM legislation
    ​ Jonathan Briggs, DG Santé, European Commission
  • Q&A
  • Is the "One Substance One Assessment" approach scientifically sound?
    Alexandre Feigenbaum, ITOSOPE FCM
  • Chemical Strategy for Sustainability and implications for food contact materials ​
    Miguel Prieto Arranz, European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic)
  • Q&A
  • Closing

 

Meet the Speakers

Bastiaan Schupp, DG Santé, European Commission
Bastiaan Schupp, DG Santé, European Commission

Since mid-2011, Bastiaan has been a legislative officer at DG Health & Food Safety of the European Commission, working on the implementation of existing legislation on food contact material. A trained chemical engineer, Bastiaan joined the Commission in 2005 at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy as a scientific officer after several years’ working on chemical safety and risk management within academia. At the Joint Research Centre, he worked on various risk related topics, including societal vulnerability to dangerous chemicals and man-made risks.

Jonathan Briggs, DG Santé, European Commission
Jonathan Briggs, DG Santé, European Commission

Jonathan studied biochemistry and specialised in toxicology at the University of Surrey in the UK and graduated there in 2002. He joined the UK's Food Standards Agency the same year, where he worked as a senior scientific officer on risk management of chemicals in food, including contaminants, pesticides and food contact materials at EU and international level. Jonathan joined the European Commission in 2014, where he has been working as a policy officer in DG SANTE on food contact materials including areas for which no specific measures exist at EU level.

Alexandre Feigenbaum, ITOSOPE FCM
Alexandre Feigenbaum, ITOSOPE FCM

Dr. Alexandre Feigenbaum assists companies to ensure the compliance of their -mainly non-plastic- Food Contact Materials with Regulation (EC) 1935/2094. He has been Head of the EFSA Unit in charge of Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Flavourings (CEF). In even earlier times, he was Director of Research at INRA, the French National Institute of Research in Agronomy. He recently made important contributions to risk assessment methodologies, such as the use of TTC in FCM area and evaluation of recycling processes.

Miguel Angel Prieto Arranz, Cefic
Miguel Angel Prieto Arranz, Cefic

Miguel Angel Prieto Arranz, is a chemist by training is currently Director in Cefic (the European Chemical Industry Council). He is in charge of the “Food and Feed”-cluster, coordinating the activities of Cefic and its Sector Groups in the area of food, feed and food contact materials, as well as of the “Plastics Additives”- cluster. He joined Cefic in 2012 and prior to that he worked in FoodDrinkEurope being in charge of the “Food contact Materials” and “food ingredients”.

 

Dario Dainelli, Food Contact Regulatory Experts Panel
Dario Dainelli, Food Contact Regulatory Experts Panel

Dario graduated in Industrial Chemistry from the University of Pisa where he spent two years as an associate research fellow at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering. In 1990, he joined M&G Polymers, as a Process Engineer for the development of improved melt strength PET grades for injection blow moulding and foaming applications. In 1991, he joined W.C. Grace where he supervised the central EU R&D laboratories. In 1997, Grace Packaging Division merged with Sealed Air, where he took on the position of Director of Regulatory Affairs EMEA Region. Since 2017 Dario Dainelli has established an independent consulting company (Dario Dainelli SPRL- Policy & Regulatory Affairs) providing services to clients in Europe, Asia and the Pacific Region, as well as global companies. Dario Dainelli has a thorough knowledge of polymer science and materials science, global food and food packaging legislation and regulatory standards, technologies and design of food contact plastic products, advocacy policies, as well as quality and hygiene management.

Registration:

Webinar participation €125 (+VAT) per person
For FREP members -50% discount - for more information send us an email
For EuPC members -30% discount - for more information send us an email

Who should attend:

  • Representatives from the plastics value chain
  • Regulatory affairs managers
  • Government regulators
  • Consultants
  • Trade associations
  • Service providers
  • NGOs
  • Academics

 

We would like to kindly ask you to send us your professional questions in advance. We will have limited capacity and time to answer the real time questions, however the speaker(s) will be answering the pre-collected and selected questions. Please submit your questions to Lilla Mezriczky – [email protected] before 6 October 2021 12.00 CET. 

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