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. We will welcome Mr. Bastiaan Schupp - Policy Officer at DG Santé, European Commission who will identify the key challenges and opportunities for the food contact plastics industry, such as how it can contribute to the EU sustainability objectives and meet their legal obligations in terms of consumer safety.
Key Speakers:
- New regulation for recycling of plastics for food contact
Bastiaan Schupp, DG Santé, European Commission - Is the "One Substance One Assessment" approach scientifically sound?
Alexandre Feigenbaum, ITOSOP-FCM - Chemical Strategy for Sustainability: Essential uses and food contact materials
Miguel Prieto Arranz, European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) - Dario Dainelli, Food Contact Regulatory Experts Panel
Moderator & Host: Martin Policar, EuPC
more speakers to be announced soon
Meet the Speakers
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.
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.
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.