Toxicology and risk assessment of chemical migrants from food contact materials

Toxicology and risk assessment of chemical migrants from food contact materials 

Arvidson, M. A. Cheeseman and A. J. McDougal, United States Food and Drug Administration, USA 

2 Regulatory framework for food contact materials in the United States 

Within the FDA s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, the Office of Food Additive Safety administers premarket approval processes for new direct food additives and food additives that are components of food contact materials. Most food contact materials are regulated via the food contact notification process and authorization of new food contact materials is administered by the Division of Food Contact Notifications (see Chapter 2 for further information). The notifier has the primary responsibility to demonstrate the safety of the proposed use of the food contact material. Review scientists within FDA perform a fair evaluation of the data in a food contact notification, as well as other relevant information, to determine if the knowledge base supports the finding with reasonable certainty that no harm will result from the intended use of the food additive. FDA maintains a number of public online listings that include useful information 

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