- Overview of Chinese Food Safety Law
- Overview of Chinese Food-Contact Standards
- Materials for Chinese Food-Contact Petitions
- Petition Process
- Case Study
- Advice
- Q&A
Marco has been involving in safety of food contact materials for more than 20 years, which specialized in analysis and assessment of Chemical contaminants in food contact materials. He has been serving as an expert in various organizations, such as the member of Review Committee for National Food Safety Standards, The member of Standardization Committee for plastic food contact material, paper and board, etc. To date, he has published more than 60 papers on food contact materials in journals and academic conferences ,while completed 20 national safety standards and analytical methods. He is currently leading the team to draft Chinese regulations for multilayer articles, wood and bamboo, Paper and paper board, as well as various analytical methods for specific migration. He once participated in a FCMs programs In 2008 as a visiting scientist at JRC of European Commission.
Marco was also appointed as the chairman of Expert committee for FCMs in China food industry association, and the member of Scientific Committee (SC) for the 7th International Food Packaging Symposium organized by ILSI Europe , dedicated to assist government agencies and industry to manage the safety of FCMs with scientific support.
Ms. Xiaolu Wang is a Senior Chemical Regulatory Compliance Consultant with Verisk 3E. Xiaolu has over eight years of experience working in the field of EHS compliance, focusing on regulatory compliance for consumer packaged goods (CPG), including food, food additives, food contact materials, cosmetics, and personal care products. Xiaolu is a frequent speaker at the Global Food Contact Conferences and serves as a member of the Advisory Board.
Xiaolu is a licensed attorney admitted to the bars of the State of New York, District of Columbia, and China. She is a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese and is fluent in English.
Mr. Mitsuhiko Shigekura has been the executive director of Japan Hygienic Olefin and Styrene Plastics Association, one of the operating bodies of voluntary restraints in Japan, since 2014. He joined to the Japanese Government in 1986 and in charge of the policy of industrial development, chemical substances, global environment, R&D etc. in Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries as well as Cabinet Office, Government of Japan. He also worked in JETRO, NITE and AIST, and was a professor of Kyushu University in 2010-2013.
Ms Yini Jin graduated in Food and Beverage Technology from the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. She was employed by a leading provider of analytical services for food and food contact materials in Germany for several years and moved her career path in 2018 to China to become a regulatory technical engineer for food contact materials.
As a regulatory technical engineer at REACH24H Consulting Group, Ms Jin is researching FCM legislations in the EU, China and other Asian countries. Ms Jin has assisted numerous companies worldwide on regulatory compliance and preparation of applications for food contact substances for the Chinese and European market. Moreover, based on the extensive laboratorial experience, Ms. Jin is also specialized in designing migration tests and reviewing migration test reports.
2013 - PRESENT
Position: Packaging Project Development Adviser/Director
Short description the task/responsibility: specific projects consultant for several companies: Merindo Makmur, Finson-Indomas, Stenta Films Sdn.Bhd., Supernova Group, Riau Andalan Pulp&Paper, MAN-Ferrostaal Indonesia.
Address: Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur
Type of business or sector: Packaging Technology and Materials.
Feb 2012 - Apr 2013
Position: Technical Director of Amcor Flexibles Asia-Pacific/Indonesia
Short description the task/responsibility: Leading the Innovation and Business Development
Address: Singapore, Australia and Jakarta
Type of business or sector: Flexible Packaging Manufacturing.
Alistair manages the Food Packaging Safety Section within Smithers. This involves advising clients on the safety legislation which applies to food packaging in a wide range of different countries throughout the world and coordinating work programmes to ensure that clients' products meet these requirements. His expertise spans all the EU countries, USA, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Israel, Russia and all the South American countries.
Alistair graduated with a degree and PhD in Chemistry from Birmingham University. After working for BP and the Department of Health, he joined Smithers in 1994, taking up his current position in 1995.
Dr. Yan Gu has been a toxicology specialist with Steptoe's Food and Feed Safety, Compliance, and Contact Materials team for more than two years. Yan is highly experienced in the safety review and evaluation of toxicological data for food contact materials, other food and color additives, and GRAS. He has assisted clients with food contact material submissions to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and regulatory authorities in China and other countries.
Yan has been a regulatory toxicology reviewer since the implementation of the FDA's Food Contact Notification Program two decades ago. He has worked on Food Contact Notifications (FCNs, over 180), Pre-Notification Consultations (PNCs, near 100), Food Additive Petitions (FAPs), and Color Additive Petitions (CAPs). During his tenure at the FDA, he participated in the development and improvement of the FCN Toxicology Guidance for Industry and the development of the Guidance of Safety Assessment for Infant Food Contact Materials for Industry. As a member of the FDA special task force team on Melamine and Bisphenol A (BPA), he was deeply involved in method development, emergency response, scientific review, and risk assessment. Yan has served as a lead of a special working group to use probabilistic approach to determine an appropriate dietary level for recommending the submission of reproductive/development toxicity testing in FCNs.
Amy Chen is a Regulatory Consultant with Compliance & Risks for over 10 years, specializing in consumer products compliance, focusing on China, Japan, Korea and other Asian countries. She helps product manufacturers to identify and understand the regulations in place in the markets to which they sell by helping them to map their obligations with regard to product safety, labeling, waste and packaging.
David Ettinger is the chief representative in Keller and Heckman’s Shanghai, China office. Mr. Ettinger counsels multinational companies on the import and export of food and food-related products to ensure compliance with regulations in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He also counsels clients on compliance with the laws and regulations in China regarding consumer products and tobacco-related products, such as e-cigarettes. Mr. Ettinger worked in the firm’s Washington, DC and Brussels offices, and is uniquely positioned to counsel foreign companies who need to navigate the regulatory landscape in Asia.
Mr. Ettinger is on the Executive Board and Chair of Mackrell International. He is on the leadership committee of the American Chamber of Commerce Shanghai’s Food, Agriculture & Beverage Committee. He is a frequent lecturer and author on international food safety matters. Mr. Ettinger is a Chambers and Partners ranked attorney in the area of Life Sciences (International Firms) – China and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America® since 2016 (FDA Law).
Prior to joining Keller and Heckman, Mr. Ettinger was a trademark attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Additionally, he has extensive trial experience as a former assistant district attorney in the Nassau County District Attorney's Office in New York where he prosecuted felonies and misdemeanors.
Chris Peloso joined Amcor Research and Development over 20 years ago after graduating with an Honours Degree in Environmental Management. His Honours year project was focused on polymer degradation, specifically the antagonism of anti-block and slip additives.
Upon joining Amcor, he moved into the analytical laboratory where he specialised in:
- Materials analysis
- Shelf life testing
- Food contact compliance testing of flexible, rigid, paper and metal packaging materials
- Odour and taint assessment
He has held the roles of Amcor Packaging Science Laboratory Manager and Amcor Australia New Zealand Product Safety Manager. In 2018, he was appointed Product Safety Director for Amcor Flexibles Asia Pacific.
Sylvain Rannou holds a PhD of Polymer Science & Engineering from The University of Manchester, UK.
With over 10 years’ experience in the polymer and food packaging industry in UK and Singapore, his expertise covers a range of functions, from packaging development, polymer processing & regulatory compliance, to training & coaching, issue management and networking to leverage expertise.
Having worked in R&D for Mars Drinks UK and A*STAR Singapore, his current responsibility within Nestlé is to ensure that Nestlé factories in zone Asia-Oceania-Africa (AOA) implement the Nestlé packaging safety & compliance (PS&C) program. His responsibility covers both food contact materials (i.e. mainly packaging) and non-food items (i.e. promotional items).
Miao Hong has been engaged in food safety risk assessment and management for many years, and has rich working experience in diet exposure assessment and human health research, national standard formulation, food safety emergency response, etc. At present, she is committed to control the risk of on-line catering food safety according to the framework of food safety risk, improve the nutritional health management level of local life service merchants, and provide nutritious and healthy food for on-line caterting consumers. At the same time, she is a member of Committee on Risk Assessment of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the State Pharmacopoeia Commission, member of the committee of food authenticity and traceability Chinese of Institute of Food Science and Technology (CIFST), standing member of Collaborative Innovation Community of Catering Industry Nutrition Management of China Nutrition Society, plastic products branch of Technical Committee of China Food Contact Materials and Products Standardization, and expert member of Food Safety and Information Traceability Branch of China Non-staple Food Circulation Association.
EDUCATION
• Doctor Degree in Chemistry (macromolecular science), University of Pisa, Italy
• Master Degree in Law, Michigan State University, USA
EXPERIENCE
• Current: Owner and Managing Director of the company Dario Dainelli-Policy & Regulatory Affairs, established in Brussels in 2018
• 2017-2018: Director of Quality & Regulatory Affairs in SITGROUP, Republic of San Marino
• 1999-2017: various management positions in Sealed Air Corporation, including Global Regulatory, and Regulatory Affairs Director for Asia and EMEA
• 1991-1999: W.R. Grace, Laboratory and EU Regulatory manager
Linda Zhu is a senior Manager of Quality Systems and Compliance for Greater China in HAVI, who has been leading quality, food safety and compliance for food packaging over 20 years by managing nearly 50 food packaging suppliers for McDonald’s Greater China market.
Linda is a standing member of the China FCM Expert Committee of CFIA. She set up the regulation work-groups and anticipatory issue management teams with upstream and down stream supplier network and promote a proactively regulatory compliance and food safety assurance culture in McDonald’s packaging supplier system. Linda received Outstanding Contribution Award from McDonald’s China and Hong Kong in 2019 and a series of awards in HAVI in past years.
Bonnie Zhang graduated from Fudan University as Ph.D, majoring Pharmaceutics. She works in Sealedair as Regulatory Affairs Manager who is responsible for monitoring regulatory update, checking product compliance and executing regulatory advocacy strategy in agreement with regional Food Care and Product Care business stakeholders.
She has more than 10 years regulatory affairs experiences with chemical control laws, food packaging, medical device and fragrances. Before joined Sealed Air, Bonnie Zhang worked in internal companies as Product stewardship and compliance manager where she managed regulatory communication, product compliance check, customer support activities in food packaging industry. She also supported pharma excipient IDL application and medical device certificate related issues.
Sven Wu, as the material specialist and manages De’Longhi Group China OEM supplier chain for more than 4 years. He has been engaged in the kitchen appliance industry for more than 10 years and has extensive experience in the materials processing such as plastic, metal stamping, die-casting, silicone, painting, assembly etc. As well as the project management, quality control and regulations.
With the profound understanding of the kitchen appliance industry, regulations and the process, he has organized the resources of customers and supply chain then set up the GMP (good manufacturing practice) audit program and implemented in key suppliers and the feedback was excellent.
He is also supporting head office to define the test approach for some product categories and specific markets, according to the Group guideline of materials risk assessment.
Joined Dow Chemical since 2003 and engaged in product safety and regulatory compliance during last 17 years crossing multiple businesses. Has extensive experience and in regulatory fields of many product such as general chemical, food/food contact etc. and rich knowledge of product risk assessment. Over years, participated many advocacy projects of product regulations-pharmaceutical DMF regulation, cosmetic material management and food contact national standard etc., also played some leadership roles in local industrial associations-Vice Chair of IPEC (China)(2009-2011), Multiple Food Contact Product Taskforce Leaders in AICM (2011-2017) , and vice chair in Food Contact Expert Committee under China National Food Industry Association (2015-2017). Transferred to current role to take accountability of product compliance and safety stewardship for all Dow P&SP portfolios in pan-Asia since 2016.
Education: MBA in Sustainability & Leadership/BSc in Biology & Chemistry
Working experiences:
20years in Chemical Industry in the areas of Product Safety & Regulatory Affairs, and Safety Health, Environment & Quality Management, Manufacturing and Engineering.
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1990-1997, Sun Ya-xin University, Inorganic chemistry(specialty), Master’s degree, Occupational history: 1997～2000 Foxconn Group (China)，Chemical engineer.
2000-2006 Environment monitoring station of Guangzhou city, Senior chemical engineer. Focused on environmental analysis.
2007 till now FCM Lab of Guangdong IQTC，Researcher. Focused on technical development of FCM migration test.
Ms. Crystal Liu, is a regulatory specialist, who is responsible for food contact group in Intertek HERS China. She is focusing on China food contact compliance and petition including formulation review and compliance testing. As the coordinator working with global Intertek regulatory teams, she offers global food contact compliance and notification service especially for US, EU, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia and Mercosur, to match the requests by local clients. She, with technical expertise and project experience, assists clients to do China food-related product petition for new substance intended to be used in food contact materials and articles, US food contact notification (FCN) and US recycled plastic clearance. In addition, Ms. Crystal is studying Japan food contact regulation system and updates of new positive lists effective on June 1, 2020. She has rich experience on submitting opinions of positive lists to MHLW and how to do compliance in accordance to voluntary standards of Japan industry associations, such JHOSPA, JAIA.
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