PTR Food Packaging News- March 2025

March 2025 Newsletter   Message from Dr. Claire Sand We would love to work with you to ensure your food packaging is safe.   We are passionate about food packaging and sustainability. Recent work has focused on working with clients to ensure safe food packaging. Please reach out if you are interested in our proven Food Packaging Safety Assurance Program, which is a “need to do” from many perspectives for many brands and packaging suppliers. Using this program, we protect against regulatory and brand risks and focus on sustainability, ensuring packaging can be recycled and the recyclate can actually be used! We have the required deep food packaging science embedded in our offering to protect you, and we would love to help. Please feel free to reach out directly below or click here to learn more about this brand-protection offering.   Reach out to me Food Packaging Safety Assurance Program Protection Levels Protection Level  Offering Overview Download PDF   The Basics of Chemicals of Concern and Substances of Interest In Pursuit of Clean Packaging with No Chemicals of Concern   Tackling PFAS for Safer and More Sustainable Food Packaging

Sustainability and Chemicals of Concern in Packaging Toxicity evaluation and prioritization of recycled plastic food contact materials using in silico tools article addresses the importance of proper recycling processes and testing to limit food contact packaging cytotoxicity         Addressing the toxic chemicals problem in plastics recycling On February 11, 2025, the new EU regulation promoting the procurement of sustainable packaging went into effect Is recycled plastic safe for food contact? If the company making it says so, according to the FDA Role of quality assessment of the recycled packaging material in determining its safety profile as food contact material Compostable packaging’s relationship status with organics recyclers: ‘It’s complicated’ California Tightens Requirements for Labeling Products as 'Compostable' "Biodegradable" tableware violates plastic pollution regulation

Packaging Industry Events

WEBINAR: Food packaging regulatory update: US to the EU  March 18, 2025  8th International Symposium on Food Packaging  April 1-4, 2025  Dubrovnik, Croatia

International Association of Packaging Research Institutes  June 2025 Roanoke, Virginia Institute of Food Technologists Annual Event and Expo  July 13-16, 2025  Chicago, IL

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Food Packaging Safety Assurance Program > We help client navigate food packaging compliance, safety & sustainability with confidence Food Packaging Expert Witness > Dr. Claire Sand is a food packaging expert with 35+ years in industry and 18+ cases as an expert witness for food and beverage packaging shelf life situations, patent & intellectual property legal disputes More Sustainable Packaging > We help client achieve more sustainable packaging with solutions that are rationale, defensible and achievable!

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