A vision for safer food contact materials: Public health
concerns as drivers for improved testing

J 2023

A vision for safer food contact materials: Public health concerns as drivers for improved testing

MUNCKE, Jane, Anna-Maria ANDERSSON, Thomas BACKHAUS, Scott M. BELCHER, Justin M. BOUCHER et. al.

Basic information

Original name

A vision for safer food contact materials: Public health concerns as drivers for improved testing

Authors

Edition

Environment International, OXFORD (ENGLAND), Pergamon Press, 2023, 0160-4120

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10511 Environmental sciences

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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URL

Impact factor

Impact factor: 11.800 in 2022

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/23:00132400

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2023.108161

UT WoS

001098719300001

Keywords in English

Food packaging; Hazard assessment; Chronic disease; Chemical safety

Abstract

V originále

Food contact materials (FCMs) and food contact articles are ubiquitous in today's globalized food system. Chemicals migrate from FCMs into foodstuffs, so called food contact chemicals (FCCs), but current regulatory requirements do not sufficiently protect public health from hazardous FCCs because only individual substances used to make FCMs are tested and mostly only for genotoxicity while endocrine disruption and other hazard properties are disregarded. Indeed, FCMs are a known source of a wide range of hazardous chemicals, and they likely contribute to highly prevalent non-communicable diseases. FCMs can also include non-intentionally added substances (NIAS), which often are unknown and therefore not subject to risk assessment. To address these important shortcomings, we outline how the safety of FCMs may be improved by (1) testing the overall migrate, including (unknown) NIAS, of finished food contact articles, and (2) expanding toxicological testing beyond genotoxicity to multiple endpoints associated with non-communicable diseases relevant to human health. Toidentify mechanistic endpoints for testing, we group chronic health outcomes associated with chemical exposure into Six Clusters of Disease (SCOD) and we propose that finished food contact articles should be tested for their impacts on these SCOD. Research should focus on developing robust, relevant, and sensitive in-vitro assays based on mechanistic information linked to the SCOD, e.g., through Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOPs) or Key Characteristics of Toxicants. Implementing this vision will improve prevention of chronic diseases that are associated with hazardous chemical exposures, including from FCMs.

Links

EF15_003/0000469, research and development project

Name: Cetocoen Plus

EF17_043/0009632, research and development project

Name: CETOCOEN Excellence

LM2018121, research and development project

Name: Výzkumná infrastruktura RECETOX (Acronym: RECETOX RI)

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, RECETOX RI

Citovat

MUNCKE, Jane, Anna-Maria ANDERSSON, Thomas BACKHAUS, Scott M. BELCHER, Justin M. BOUCHER, Bethanie Carney ALMROTH, Terrence J. COLLINS, Birgit GEUEKE, Ksenia J. GROH, Jerrold J. HEINDEL, Frank A. VON HIPPEL, Juliette LEGLER, Maricel V. MAFFINI, V. Martin OLWENN, John Peterson MYERS, Angel NADAL, Cristina NERIN, Ana M. SOTO, Leonardo TRASANDE, Laura N. VANDENBERG, Martin WAGNER, Lisa ZIMMERMANN, R. Thomas ZOELLER and Martin SCHERINGER. A vision for safer food contact materials: Public health concerns as drivers for improved testing. Environment International. OXFORD (ENGLAND): Pergamon Press, 2023, vol. 180, October 2023, p. 1-18. ISSN 0160-4120. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2023.108161.

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N2  - Food contact materials (FCMs) and food contact articles are ubiquitous in today's globalized food system. Chemicals migrate from FCMs into foodstuffs, so called food contact chemicals (FCCs), but current regulatory requirements do not sufficiently protect public health from hazardous FCCs because only individual substances used to make FCMs are tested and mostly only for genotoxicity while endocrine disruption and other hazard properties are disregarded. Indeed, FCMs are a known source of a wide range of hazardous chemicals, and they likely contribute to highly prevalent non-communicable diseases. FCMs can also include non-intentionally added substances (NIAS), which often are unknown and therefore not subject to risk assessment. To address these important shortcomings, we outline how the safety of FCMs may be improved by (1) testing the overall migrate, including (unknown) NIAS, of finished food contact articles, and (2) expanding toxicological testing beyond genotoxicity to multiple endpoints associated with non-communicable diseases relevant to human health. Toidentify mechanistic endpoints for testing, we group chronic health outcomes associated with chemical exposure into Six Clusters of Disease (SCOD) and we propose that finished food contact articles should be tested for their impacts on these SCOD. Research should focus on developing robust, relevant, and sensitive in-vitro assays based on mechanistic information linked to the SCOD, e.g., through Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOPs) or Key Characteristics of Toxicants. Implementing this vision will improve prevention of chronic diseases that are associated with hazardous chemical exposures, including from FCMs.
ER  -

MUNCKE, Jane, Anna-Maria ANDERSSON, Thomas BACKHAUS, Scott M. BELCHER, Justin M. BOUCHER, Bethanie Carney ALMROTH, Terrence J. COLLINS, Birgit GEUEKE, Ksenia J. GROH, Jerrold J. HEINDEL, Frank A. VON HIPPEL, Juliette LEGLER, Maricel V. MAFFINI, V. Martin OLWENN, John Peterson MYERS, Angel NADAL, Cristina NERIN, Ana M. SOTO, Leonardo TRASANDE, Laura N. VANDENBERG, Martin WAGNER, Lisa ZIMMERMANN, R. Thomas ZOELLER and Martin SCHERINGER. A vision for safer food contact materials: Public health concerns as drivers for improved testing. \textit{Environment International}. OXFORD (ENGLAND): Pergamon Press, 2023, vol.~180, October 2023, p.~1-18. ISSN~0160-4120. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2023.108161.

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