EUROPEAN PLASTICS INDUSTRY WELCOMES REFORMS TO EU FOOD CONTACT LEGISLATION
February 1st, 2012
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN plastics industry has broadly welcomed the results of reforms agreed just over a year ago - on February 4, 2011 - on the European Union (EU) regulation 10/2011 'covering plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food'. The new measure replaced the so-called plastics directive, which dated back to 2002 - directives offer EU member states more flexibility over implementing EU rules, regulations have to be followed to the letter. but as well as altering the legal basis for EU action in this area the new regulation ...
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