US Food Contact Regulations: How to Ease Compliance?

Increasingly stringent legal requirements defined by Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has made the approval process more complex! You need to understand every minor detail and specific stipulations (positive lists, compositional compliance, use conditions, fair R&D practices…) to ensure your products get FDA approval faster..

Join this course and:

1. Stay up-to-date on latest FDA food contact legislations: new requirements, positive lists, recycling, active/smart packaging…


2. Learn about different regulations including 21 CFR 174.5, to 179.45, GRAS, 182, 184 and more.


3. Tackle the case of non-compliant materials better with expert tips & practical know-how.


4. Lower time & cost needed to get food contact approval by smartly choosing new materials and properly determining their safe condition of use.


5. Prevent future liability issues by timely running appropriate tests (end use, migration, toxicological..) to determine compliance.

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R&D people, quality managers, sales people and buyers of food safe materials... throughout the supply chain – from raw material producers to end-users looking for way to get faster FDA approval must opt for this course.

The following sections will be covered during the session:

• Structure of US FDA regulations of Food Safe Materials
  • General requirements
  • Specific requirements
  • Other “positive lists” (Where to find them?... )
  • Overview of plastics, additives used in food contact
  • Legislation for Recycling, Active & Intelligent packaging
  
  
• Determining compliance of FCM & what it means for R&D practice
  • Compositional compliance
  • Compliance with use conditions
  • End tests specifications
  • Comparison with EU Requirements
  
  
• What can be done when a material is not compliant?
  
  
• Information requirements for an FCN (Food Contact Substance Notification)
  
  
• Impact on R&D practices & How to optimize?
  • 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
  
  
• Advantages of FDA Clearance


• Conclusions


• 30 mins Q&A- Ask your questions directly from the expert !

About the Expert

Andreas Tschech has more than 20 years of experience in European and US FDA regulations for food contact materials. He is a regular speaker at conferences on food contact materials and has performed nearly 600 polymers compliance checks up till now.

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