EU Updates Food Contact Plastics Regulation

A look at the EU’s revisions and corrections to its ‘Food Contact Plastics Regulation’. End Quote

(1888PressRelease) September 19, 2020 - The European Union (EU) has published a new regulation – Regulation (EU) 2020/1245 – that will amend and correct Regulation (EU) 10/2011 ‘Food Contact Plastics Regulation’.

Regulation (EU) 2020/1245 contains a number of important changes, including a completely new Table 1 in Annex II ‘Restrictions on plastic materials and articles’. Table 1 defines the specific migration limits (SML) for 19 substances that are subject to specific conditions. These are aluminum, antimony, arsenic, barium, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, europium, gadolinium, iron, lanthanum, lead, lithium, manganese, mercury, nickel, terbium, and zinc.

It also contains five substances with migration limits subject to Articles 11(3) and 12: ammonium, calcium, magnesium, potassium, and sodium.

Among the other provisions in Regulation (EU) 2020/1245 are changes to:

• Annex I, Table 1 ‘Union list of authorized substances’
• Annex IV ‘Declaration of Compliance’
• Annex V ‘Compliance Testing’

To learn more about these changes, view SafeGuard 134/20.

The new law will come into force on September 23, 2020.

Products that conform to the current Food Contact Plastics Regulation, and which are placed onto the market before March 23, 2021, can continue to be placed onto the market until September 23, 2022. They can then remain on the market until stocks are exhausted.

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