FSA Letter, 5 August 2010

CONTAMINANTS / PACKAGING MATERIALS / IRRADIATION - Food Contact Materials, Food Contaminants and Food Irradiation – FSA Update Bulletin August 2010

The following subjects have been covered in the letter from the FSA. A copy of the letter is available on this site. See: Contaminants Update Letter - August 2010

Food Contact Materials and Articles

Policy:

• Draft Commission Regulation on Plastics Materials and Articles Intended to Come in to Contact with Foods.
• Draft Regulation on Kitchenware Imported from China.
• The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (England) Regulations 2010

Science:

Three research reports published on 2 June 2010:

• A03057 – ‘Nonylphenol in food contact plastics and migration into foods’
• A03066 – ‘Investigation into the effect of additives on migration of substances originating from colourants used in food contact plastics’
• A03067 - ‘Packaged Food Intake in Students and Older Adults’

Environmental Contaminants

Inorganic

• EFSA’s scientific opinion on lead
• JECFA evaluations of arsenic, cadmium and lead
• Arsenic in food
• Cadmium in crab
• Cadmium in various foodstuffs
• Research Requirement Published

Organic

• Dioxins and dioxin-like PCBS
• Guar gum from India
• Limit in Liver
• Review of Dioxin and Dioxin-like PCB limits
• Non dioxin-like PCBs
• Non dioxin-like PCB limits on food – current proposals
• Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
• Summary of calls for data

Process Contaminants

• Acrylamide

Mycotoxins

• Guidance Document for competent authorities for the control of compliance with EU legislation on aflatoxins
• Codex Committee on Contaminants in Food (CCCF) meeting, Izmir April 2010
• Aflatoxins in Brazil nuts
• Fumonisins in maize and maize products
• Future work
• Four-year surveillance programme for mycotoxins in food: proposed activity for year 2
• Brazil nut aflatoxin contamination study
• FPD020: Alternatives to enforcement – working in partnership
• C03060: Determination of masked fusarium mycotoxins in cereals
• Contact information

Food Irradiation

• Consultation on The Food Irradiation (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2010