EU FOOD CONTACT RULES
January 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has released guidelines for food product packaging companies wanting to secure authorisation for new materials touching foodstuffs. This follows the approval in October of European Union (EU) regulation 1935/2004 on materials and articles intended to come into contact with food, legalising 'intelligent materials' alerting consumers to the freshness of a foodstuff. The EFSA note advises on administrative and technical data required and formats for formal submissions to national regulators, which are then ...
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