Platform for migration, hazard and risk assessment of chemicals from food contact materials (FCMs)
Service
Sciensano offers an integrated platform to support safe and sustainable development, risk assessment, and compliance evaluation of food contact materials (FCM). Our service includes a consolidated approach encompassing migration, hazard, and risk assessment modules, which can be consulted independently or combined according to your preferences and needs. The three key modules:
- Migration & Exposure: Standardizes the methodology for evaluating substance migration, with options for ISO 17025-accredited experiments or predictions using the VERMEER-FCM model. Exposure estimation will be made on the basis of migration levels in food and the target consumer population.
- Hazard Assessment: Toxicological data collection utilizing freely available databases combined with the application of in silico tools and the automated SILIFOOD tool for risk assessment. Additionally, in vitro genotoxicity testing and other toxicological tests can be performed.
- Risk Assessment & Compliance Evaluation: Combines exposure and hazard information to perform risk assessments for which different approaches can be applied based on the request from the applicants. Furthermore, compliance evaluation and interpretation of the complex FCM legislation can be performed.
- Education & Training: Offering customized training programs designed to meet specific user needs. This module can provide hands-on training on the use of tools such as SILIFOOD and VERMEER-FCM. The format of the training is flexible and can include workshops, webinars, or one-on-one sessions.
The access to the service will be remote, indicating the service will be provided by the researchers and lab technicians of Sciensano at their premises.
Who can benefit?
Research organizations, universities, and industries engaged in food packaging and industries developing new materials for safe-by-design FCM development. Other potential users are the competent authorities, their supporting bodies and scientific institutes to support FCM risk assessment and develop strategies and guidelines for future risk assessment methodologies. The platform will be made available to external users (governments, industry, research) for evaluating the feasibility of one or more modules.
Deadline
Applications are open from 10/06/2024 to 01/12/2024 at 5 PM.
More detailed information on the timing of the open calls is provided on the general Open Calls website.
Registration
Open call closed on the 1st of December 2024.
Contact
If you have any additional questions or require further information about the open call project, please do not hesitate to contact us on metrofood@sciensano.be
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