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Food Factory international conference – Laval (France)

Food Factory 2016 is an international scientific conference, multidisciplinary and oriented to innovative industrial applications in the food industry.
During this conference, workshops will be proposed. Amongst them, we selected  the presentation of the latest innovations in BLUECOPHA project whose goal is to produce sustainable packaging from marine bacteria and by-products of the food industry.
The 8th international conference Food Factory will be held from 19 to 21 October 2016 in Laval (France).

ALL4PACK – Paris (France)

The “ALL4PACK Paris” salon brings together actors from the food industries, cosmetics, beauty, health, pharmaceuticals, retail and consumer goods.

ALL4PACK Paris proposes to highlight innovation in the packaging industry (packaging and containers, processing machinery and packaging, labels, identification machines, traceability, marking, coding, packaging printing, ...) and handling industry.

The salon will take place from 14 to 17 November 2016 in Paris.

Search tool of available alternatives to bisphenols

This search tool is a table in Microsoft® Excel format summarizing all the alternatives to bisphenols compiled by INERIS and mentioned in the SNA website. Via this table, you can search alternatives: for a sector of activity (for instance: food containers, drinking water…), for a specific application (for example: food cans, cans, paints …), in order to replace a specific material (for instance: BPA-based epoxy resins, BPA-based polycarbonates).

Identification of actions to reduce use of Bisphenol A (BPA) – Focus on items in contact with food

This report details the results of a survey conducted by INERIS in 2011 on the uses of and possible substitutes for Polycarbonate and Epoxy Resins (two Bisphenol-A-based materials) in food containers and utensils intended for the general public.

It contains a description of the items concerned and lists the alternatives currently available or under development.

Seeking safer packaging. Ranking packaged food companies on BPA.

This report, published in 2010, sets out the conclusions of a survey conducted in the USA among companies operating in the food sector by Green Century Capital Management (a strategy consulting firm specialising in responsible investments, founded by an NGO partnership in 1991) and As you sow (an NGO founded in 1992) to determine the extent of the action they had taken or planned to take to replace BPA in food packaging. It follows on from the report published in 2009.