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About the author
Lindsey Parkinson manages the Food Packaging Forum’s data products and
interactive visualisation tools and regularly writes on the research,
governmental policies and civil society campaigns related to the safety of
chemicals used in food contact materials. She collates the Food Packaging
Forum’s latest research, projects, tool updates and news from the fi eld of
food contact materials in their monthly newsletter.
https://www.foodpackagingforum.org/newsletter

About the Food Packaging Forum
The Food Packaging Forum (FPF) is a non-profi t, charitable foundation
based in Zurich, Switzerland dedicated to science communication on
chemicals in food contact materials and their impacts on health and the
environment. A small team of dedicated scientists, engineers and project
managers provide high quality, science-based publications and tools to
enable a dialogue between professional stakeholders.

• Consider simplifying/localising
supply chains to reduce processing
and storage steps – this may lead to
innovation in the business model.

To achieve a truly sustainable food
system, FCMs need to be safe for
both human and environmental
health, or to put it simply: If Contact detail
packaging is not safe, it is not Lindsey Parkinson
sustainable and therefore neither is Data Scientist and Scientifi c Editor
the food product. So far, our society
has largely adopted CO emissions Food Packaging Forum
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together with effi cient resource use Foundation
materials that the business’s as pillars of a sustainable system, but Tel. +41 44 515 5255
customers can dispose of properly considering chemicals is a necessary lindsey.parkinson@fp-forum.org
– and make sure that those step to safely enable the circular
materials do not contain PFAS and economy. Fortunately, the resources www.FoodPackagingForum.org
other persistent, hazardous are available for companies to make a Staff elstrasse 10 | 8045 Zurich |
Switzerland
chemicals. good start.

References
1.Groh KJ, Geueke B, Martin O, Maffi ni M, Muncke J. Overview of intentionally used food contact chemicals and their
hazards. Environment International. 2021 May 1;150:106225
2. Geueke B, Groh KJ, Maffi ni MV, Martin OV, Boucher JM, Chiang YT, Gwosdz F, Jieh P, Kassotis CD, Łańska P, Myers
JP. Systematic evidence on migrating and extractable food contact chemicals: Most chemicals detected in food
contact materials are not listed for use. Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition. 2022 Apr 18:1-1
3. SPHERE: the packaging sustainability framework
https://www.wbcsd.org/Programs/Circular-Economy/Sustainable-Plasticsand-Packaging-Value-Chains/Circular-
Sustainability-Assessment-for-Packaging/Resources/SPHERE-the-packagingsustainability-framework
4. UP Scorecard https://upscorecard.org/

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