EFSA FOOD CONTACT
May 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has been releasing rulings on market approval applications for plastic materials used for packaging in contact with food and drink. Its concern ensuring compliance with directive 89/109/EEC on 'materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs', which aims to prevent harmful contamination. EFSA inherited the task of policing new substances under its founding 2002 regulation and established a 'panel on food additives, flavourings, processing aids and materials in contact with food' the ...
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