Registers and lists

• Valid applications for authorisation of recycling processes to produce recycled plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foods. Updated Sept 2011
• Provisional list of additives for use in plastic food contact materials Updated October 2011

Contacts

• EU and national authorities Updated February 2012
• European professional organisations Updated January 2012
• First points of introduction for the import of polyamide and melamine kitchenware from China and Hong Kong Updated May 2012

Applications for authorisations

• Guidance on applications for evaluation of a substance to be used in food contact materials Updated Jan. 2010
• Note of Guidance on applications for evaluation of a recycling process to produce recycled plastics
• Note of guidance on applications for evaluation of active and intelligent substances to be used in such materials and articles intended to come into contact with food
• National contacts for applications for authorisation of substances to be used in food contact materials and applications for authorisation of recycling processes to produce recycled plastics Updated May 2012

Guidance on EU Legislation

• EU Guidance on active and intelligent materials and articles intended to come into contact with food - in support of the implementation of Commission Regulation (EC) No 450/2009 of 29 May 2009.
• Explanatory note - concerning authorisation of "old" and "new" recycling processes
• Questions and answers - Regulation EC 282/2008 - recycling processes to produce recycled plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foods.
• EU guidelines for the import of polyamide and melamine kitchenware from China and Hong Kong
• Technical Guidelines concerning polyamide and melamine kitchenware including sampling and analytical methods

Legislative overview

• EU and national laws Updated 21-02-2012
• Summary of national legislation additional to EU legislation Updated 02-05-2012

Printing inks

• Conclusions - presence of 4-Methylbenzophenone (4-MBP) and Benzophenone (BP) in food originating from printing inks used on food packaging
  (March 2009)

Other documents

• Symbols for labelling food contact materials
• Declaration of compliance under (EU) No 284/2011 - on import of polyamide and melamine plastic kitchenware from China and Hong Kong