Food contact materials: building on scientific developments

02 February 2016

EFSA’s experts recommend refining the safety assessment of substances used in food contact materials. In the future, EFSA intends to update the Guidance on data requirements for the evaluation of these substances.
The CEF Panel experts considered stakeholder feedback from a public consultation whilst finalising their opinion and refined some aspects. They included an additional food consumption category and clarified how to combine information on food consumption with information on migration of chemicals into food, to estimate consumer exposure. They also clarified the need to take account of other sources of exposure to these substances (EFSA Highlights, 28 January 2016).
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