Food contact materials (FCMs) are regulated in the European Union to ensure the functioning of the internal market and to protect the health and interests of the consumers. For ceramics, limits exist only for lead and cadmium under Directive 84/500/EEC but scientific data has shown the need to l...
The aim of this document is to assist users of diffusion models to predict conservative, upper bound specific migration values from plastic food contact materials for compliance purposes by providing guidance on the relevant input parameters....
This guidance describes how to characterize the composition of a multilayer plastic film for food packaging, with respect to the consecutive order of the layers and their identity. It provides background information on the general composition of multilayer plastic packaging and it illustrates in...
The aim of this work is to support DG Health and Food Safety with a baseline study on non-harmonised food contact materials (FCMs). The study aimed to analyse the existing regulatory frameworks at national or sectorial level to demonstrate compliance with the general safety requirements for mate...
This report presents the results of an inter-laboratory comparison (ILC) on the temperature control during migration tests by article filling organised by the EURL-FCM, Ispra (Italy). Participants carried out a migration test by article filling in provided polypropylene cups (volume 0.3 L) with ...
This report presents the results of an inter-laboratory comparison on the specific migration of caprolactam (CAP) and 2,4-di-tert butyl phenol (2,4-DTBP) from a plastic food contact material in food simulant A (ethanol 10 %, v/v) organised by the EURL-FCM, Ispra (Italy). Homogeneity and stabilit...
This annual report presents the activities of the EURL FCM in 2015 under the Administrative Agreement N° SI2.701410. The work programme for 2015 was established on the basis of the priorities established together with DG SANTE in conformity with the objectives and priorities laid down in the Com...
Precision criteria for the quantification of metals in acetic acid 3% and acetic acid 4% migration solutions for different analytical techniques were calculated and are presented in this report. They were derived from two interlaboratory comparisons (ILC03/04 2014) data, including repeatability ...
In the present work, the release of metals from 14 samples (9 industrial samples, 2 ad-hoc manufactured ceramic cups and 3 ad-hoc manufactured glasses) was investigated in order to provide underpinning data on migration of metals under different conditions from different samples. The rim area wa...
In the present work, the release from 15 samples of crystalware was investigated with respect to migration of metals in different conditions from different samples. Three test regimes were compared. The first one, currently in use for ceramic, foresees the use of acetic acid 4% as simulant and t...
