Over the last 20 years food contact materials (FCMs) have been subject to a large amount of legislation globally to ensure safety of food packaging. FCMs, like polymer additives, have to be approved before being used. The basic principles, procedures and responsibilities of food contact regulation are worldwide similar, producers and users of materials and articles must ensure compliance under the conditions of intended use.

We are helping our clients in this highly regulated industry to coordinate and provide support for Food Contact Approval processes (e.g. EU, USA, Canada, and Japan) which include:

- Global notification strategy development

- Current legislation interpretation and substance approval status evaluation

- Dossier/petition preparation and submission

- Migration modeling

- Migration testing

- Toxicological testing

- Preparation of compliance certificates/opinion letters