Food: Packaging
(asked on 21st February 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the (a) level of per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances in paper and cardboard food packaging and (b) potential effect of those substances on (i) human health and (ii) the environment.
Whilst fluorinated compounds from food contact materials such as paper and board have not raised specific safety concerns to date, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) regularly reviews new information on this subject. The European Food Safety Authority has just published its draft Opinion on the ‘Risk to human health related to the presence of perfluoroalkyl substances in food’ on Monday 24 February 2020 and it can be found at the following link:
The FSA will consider this new Opinion and whether any risk management action is required.