BPA ban: Monitoring for paper industry removed from draft regulation
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The monitoring of recycled paper and cardboard provided for in the draft regulation on the Europe-wide ban on bisphenol A in food contact materials will not take place in this form.
EUWID has learned this from paper industry circles. The EU Commission is planning to remove Article 5 ("Monitoring and reporting of results") from the draft regulation. A representative of the Commission confirmed the deletion of the article in question when asked.
However, he added that the discussion on the monitoring of BPA from "incidental" sources, such as recycled paper and cardboard, would be resumed later this month. "We still intend to address the issue, just not in the current draft regulation," said the Commission representative.
The mandatory monitoring of recycled paper and cardboard initially provided for in Article 5 was also the subject of the VFV annual conference "Trends 2024 in European food packaging" on April 23 in Aschaffenburg. The organizer had put the topic on the agenda at short notice due to the discussions of recent months.
