Tag: packaging
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France Implements New BPA Rules; EFSA Announces Forthcoming Scientific Opinion
The French Directorate-General for Competition Policy, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) has released a guidance document detailing the implementation of new rules that ban the use of bisphenol A (BPA) in all food contact materials in their finished state as of January 1, 2015. The second part of a law that first prohibited BPA…
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FDA Concludes Safety Assessment of BPA in Food Packaging
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated its online bisphenol A (BPA) information to reaffirm its conclusion that the substance is safe for approved food-packaging uses. According to the revised statement, agency experts in toxicology, analytical chemistry, endocrinology, epidemiology, and other fields completed “a four-year review of more than 300 scientific studies” without…
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Advocacy Groups Petition FDA for Ban on Chemicals Used in Food Contact Materials
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has joined the Center for Science in the Public Interest and other consumer groups in petitioning the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to remove several chemicals from food contact materials. The first food additive petition asks FDA to promulgate a new rule “prohibiting the use of perchlorate as a…
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Court Rejects Wax Maker’s Bid to Leave Kellogg’s Cereal Bag Recall Suit
A Michigan federal court has denied The International Group Inc.’s (IGI’s) motion for summary judgment in a case alleging that the waxmaker and FPC Flexible Packaging Corp. provided Kellogg with non-merchantable cereal bags. Kellogg Co. v. FPC Flexible Packaging Corp., No. 11-272 (W.D. Mich., order entered September 30, 2014). IGI supplied wax to FPC, which…
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NOSB to Consider BPA Ban for Organic Food Packaging
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Organic Program has announced a public meeting of the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) on October 28-30, 2014, in Louisville, Kentucky. The meeting will include recommendations from the board’s six subcommittees on a wide range of topics, including “substances petitioned to the National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances…
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EPA to Discuss Diisononyl Phthalate at Upcoming ISIS Meeting
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published preliminary materials for the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) toxicological review of diisononyl phthalate (DINP), a plasticizer used in food-contact materials.Slated for discussion at the IRIS Bimonthly Public Science Meeting to be held October 29-30, 2014, in Arlington, Virginia, the preliminary materials include (i) “a planning and…
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Seventh Circuit Vacates Judgment, Allows Grove Square Coffee Pods Putative Class Action to Continue
A district court erred in denying class certification and granting summary judgment to Sturm Foods and its parent company Treehouse Foods in a putative class action accusing the coffee manufacturer of misleading consumers to believe its Keurig-compatible coffee pods contained high-quality coffee rather than low-quality instant coffee, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has decided.…
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Court Rejects Spoliation Claim in Kellogg Recall Case
A Michigan federal court has denied a motion filed by FPC Flexible Packaging Corp. and The International Group, Inc. to dismiss evidence for spoliation in a case accusing the packaging company and the wax maker of providing Kellogg defective cereal liners, resulting in a $70 million recall. Kellogg Co. v. FPC Flexible Packaging Corp., No. 11-272…