Projects

Sponsor: Federal Ministry for Economics and Energy

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Sponsor: Federal Ministry for Economics and Energy

Sponsor: Bavarian Ministry for Economics / Forschungsgemeinschaft für Verpackungs- und Lebensmitteltechnik e. V. (FoGe)

Sponsor: Bavarian Ministry for Economics / Forschungsgemeinschaft für Verpackungs- und Lebensmitteltechnik e. V. (FoGe)

Sponsor: Bavarian Ministry for Economics / Forschungsgemeinschaft für Verpackungs- und Lebensmitteltechnik e. V. (FoGe)

Sponsor: AiF

Sponsor: AiF

Sponsor: Forschungsgemeinschaft für Verpackungs- und Lebensmitteltechnik e. V. (FoGe)

Sponsor: Forschungsgemeinschaft für Verpackungs- und Lebensmitteltechnik e. V. (FoGe)

Sponsor: Bavarian Ministry for Economics / Forschungsgemeinschaft für Verpackungs- und Lebensmitteltechnik e. V. (FoGe)

Sponsor: Industrievereinigung für Lebensmitteltechnologie und Verpackung e.V. (IVLV)

Sponsor: Industrievereinigung für Lebensmitteltechnologie und Verpackung e.V. (IVLV)

Sponsor: Industrievereinigung für Lebensmitteltechnologie und Verpackung e.V. (IVLV)

Sponsor: Bavarian Ministry for Economics / Forschungsgemeinschaft für Verpackungs- und Lebensmitteltechnik e. V. (FoGe)

Sponsor: Industrievereinigung für Lebensmitteltechnologie und Verpackung e.V. (IVLV)

Sponsor: EU

The FACET project was developed in response to a call by the European Commission to produce a risk management tool consisting of a database containing information on the levels of food additives, flavourings and food packaging migrants and corresponding food consumption data. The main reasons that such a tool is required in the EU can be summarized as follows: 1. Efforts to monitor exposure to food chemical intake tend to be orientated toward specific groups of chemicals and to date, no concerted effort has been made in the EU to combine exposure estimates for several chemicals into one project. 2. In the past, individual projects estimating food chemical exposure have had a finite objective in providing an exposure estimate at a defined point in time. The present study will certainly do that but it is also intended that the surveillance system developed in the present project will be capable of being both sustained and developedfor use by EU regulatory authorities. With regards to the main areas separately, FACET will extend the current state-of-the-art as follows: : food additives, flavourings, food packaging migrants, food chemical occurrence, food chemical concentration data, food intake data, regional modelling, food chemical exposure models.

Sponsor: Industrievereinigung für Lebensmitteltechnologie und Verpackung e.V. (IVLV)

Sponsor: EU

Most food packages and food contact materials (FCMs) are manufactured using adhesives. The EU regulates FCMs, as their constituents may contaminate food and endanger consumer’s health. In contrary to plastics which are regulated by positive lists of authorised ingredients, adhesives have not yet a specific regulation. When using this approach also for adhesives, hundreds of raw materials would be out of scope, as they lack the standard information required by the risk assessment agencies. This would pose high cost burdens for toxicity tests to adhesives industry which is dominated by SMEs and to all SMEs from the added value chain.

The project elaborates a scientific global risk assessment approach

• to meet current general EU regulatory requirements and
• to serve as a basis for future specific EU legislation and
• to provide SME industry a tool to ensure that adhesives do not endanger consumer health. The idea is to demonstrate that consumer’s exposure to chemicals released by adhesives is in many cases below levels of concern.

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Sponsor: Industrievereinigung für Lebensmitteltechnologie und Verpackung e.V. (IVLV)

Sponsor: Bavarian Ministry for Economics / Forschungsgemeinschaft für Verpackungs- und Lebensmitteltechnik e. V. (FoGe)

Sponsor: Industrievereinigung für Lebensmitteltechnologie und Verpackung e.V. (IVLV)

Sponsor: Verband Kunststofferzeugende Industrie e.V. (VKE)

Sponsor: EU

The main objective of the European research project FOODMIGROSURE was to provide a novel and economic tool for estimation of consumer exposure to chemicals migrating from food contact materials. The tool is based on a physico-chemical migration model that describes mathematically the migration processes from plastics into actual foodstuffs under any foreseeable contact conditions.

Sponsor: Verband Kunststofferzeugende Industrie e.V. (VKE)

Sponsor: European Aluminium Foil Association – EAFA

Overal aim of the project is to create a complete scientific database of fundamental physicalconstants to enable aluminium laminate producers to us migration modelling for compliancetesting of all types of packaging made out of aluminium laminates. In detail the aims of theproject are:
1. Complete the experimental determination of the fundamental constants needed forcompliance testing by migration modelling of aluminium laminates studied in part I withrespect to more suitable food simulants.
2. Experimental determination of the fundamental constants of new laminate types notcovered by experiment until now for example extrusion coated laminates or paper laminatedto aluminium by wax but not limited to these.
3. Improvement and adaptation of the migration modelling procedure to the specificneeds of the producers of aluminium laminates.

Sponsor: Verband Kunststofferzeugende Industrie e.V. (VKE)

Sponsor: AiF