October 14-15, 2026
Online
Smithers' specialist course gives you a comprehensive overview of the key regulatory areas in food contact compliance — built for professionals working in chemicals, plastics, materials and packaging.
Next course: October 14–15, 2026
Lunch and refreshment breaks will be included both days.
You'll get a detailed guide to the legislation relevant to your market, insight into what's coming next, and practical steps to prepare now. With the option to tailor course content to your specific needs, you'll leave with the knowledge to succeed — as a business and as an individual.
By joining our next Food Contact Training US course, you'll:
Early bird tickets available until September 30, 2026. Book now to save $100!
Alistair is a subject matter expert in the Food Contact Safety Team at 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 South America.
Suguna runs client projects and oversees laboratory operations to ensure the quality of test data and efficient project delivery. An active member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, she is a highly accomplished scientist with more than ten years of experience in method development and validation across a number of industries. Suguna’s specialism is managing ink-related projects and analysing and risk assessing non-intentionally added substances (NIAS). She leads method development and validation projects with a focus on understanding new or novel materials.
Dr. Barry Podd gained a BA (Hons) and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Essex. Post Doctoral Research Fellow for three years at the University of Surrey.
He spent 34 years in Industry in various positions in Research and Development, Marketing, Sales and the Regulatory Affairs Departments and in the Consumer Products Industry as Associate Director Global Regulatory Affairs responsible for regulatory management issues related to chemicals, biocides and food contact around the world before retiring in 2013.
Before retiring, Barry was active in a number of Trade Associations, including CEFIC, EDANA and the European Tissue Symposium, where he either chaired and/or participated in a large number of working groups.
