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Scientific Challenges in the Risk Assessment of Food Contact Materials

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F17%3A00114995" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/17:00114995 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/EHP644/" target="_blank" >https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/EHP644/</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/EHP644" target="_blank" >10.1289/EHP644</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Scientific Challenges in the Risk Assessment of Food Contact Materials

  • Original language description

    BACKGROUND: Food contact articles (FCAs) are manufactured from food contact materials (FCMs) that include plastics, paper, metal, glass, and printing inks. Chemicals can migrate from FCAs into food during storage, processing, and transportation. Food contact materials' safety is evaluated using chemical risk assessment (RA). Several challenges to the RA of FCAs exist. OBJECTIVES: We review regulatory requirements for RA of FCMs in the United States and Europe, identify gaps in RA, and highlight opportunities for improving the protection of public health. We intend to initiate a discussion in the wider scientific community to enhance the safety of food contact articles. DISCUSSION: Based on our evaluation of the evidence, we conclude that current regulations are insufficient for addressing chemical exposures from FCAs. RA currently focuses on monomers and additives used in the manufacture of products, but it does not cover all substances formed in the production processes. Several factors hamper effective RA for many FCMs, including a lack of information on chemical identity, inadequate assessment of hazardous properties, and missing exposure data. Companies make decisions about the safety of some food contact chemicals (FCCS) without review by public authorities. Some chemical migration limits cannot he enforced because analytical standards arc unavailable. CONCLUSION: We think that exposures to hazardous substances migrating from FCAs require more attention. We recommend a) limiting the number and types of chemicals authorized for manufacture and b) developing novel approaches for assessing the safety of chemicals in FCAs, including unidentified chemicals that form during or after production.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2017

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES

  • ISSN

    0091-6765

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    125

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    9

  • Country of publishing house

    US - UNITED STATES

  • Number of pages

    9

  • Pages from-to

    „095001-1“-„095001-9“

  • UT code for WoS article

    000413792800008

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85031766116