Advances in Safety Assessment of Packaging Materials

09.00 – 09.30 
Doors Open, Breakfast and Coffee

09.30 – 09.45
Official Welcome and Program Overview by Hochschule Campus Wien

09.45 – 10.10
To be announced
_{European Commission}

10.15 – 10.40 
Safety Risk Assessment of New Recycled Plastic Materials Beyond rPET: An Industry Perspective
_{Maxence Oboeuf (Danone Food Safety Center)}

10.45 – 11.10 
Mechanical Recycling of Plastic Materials and Current Challenges for Food Contact Materials (FCMs): Sorting, Material Quality and Safety
_{Jörg Fischer (Johannes Kepler University, Linz)}

11.15 – 11.45 
Coffee Break

11.45 – 12.10 
LOOPCYCLING: Further development of mechanical recycling of flexible plastic packaging for contact-sensitive applications
^{Achim Grefenstein (RWTH Aachen)}

12.15 – 12.40 
Delamination and Deinking of Coloured Plastic Packaging and Potential Effects on Increasing Recycling Rates
_{Sibel Ügdüler (Ghent University)}

12.45 – 13.10 
Development of a Risk Matrix for Assessing PFAS in Food Packaging
_{Manfred Tacker (Circular Analytics TK GmbH)}

13.15 – 14.30 
Lunch Break

14.30 – 14.55
Food Contact Chemicals and their potential health effects; Micro- and nanoplastics from food contact articles
_{Birgit Geueke (Food Packaging Forum)}

15.00 – 15.25 
Advanced analytical approaches to evaluate the chemical safety of recycled food contact materials
_{Bina Bhattarai (Technical University of Denmark)} 

15.30 – 15.55 
Materials Testing and Analyses of Fibre-Based Food Contact Materials
_{Antje Harling (PTS – Institut für Fasern & Papier GmbH)}

16.00 – 16.30 
Coffee Break

16.30 – 16.55 
Online: Applicability of in silico tools for hazard identification to fulfil the requirements for toxicity screening of recycled paper food contact materials under EU FCM legislation
_{Thanos Kourkopoulos (Maastricht University)}

17.00 – 17.25 
Libraries for non-volatile substances in FCM: New approach for being launched into the public domain
_{Cristina Nerin (University of Zaragoza)}

17.30 – 17.55 
To be announced
_{Christian Kirchnawy (OFI)}

18.00 – 18.25 
To be announced
_{Julian Selinger (HCW)}

18.30 – 19.30 
Buffet / Networking / Snacks and Drinks

9.30 – 10.00
Registration and welcome refreshments

10.00 – 10.15
Welcome and introduction
_{Silvia Apprich (HCW), Lukas Prielinger (HCW), Victoria Krauter (HCW)}

10.15 – 10.45
Presentation 1
Shaping the future of food contact materials: Harmonisation, chemical safety and traceability
_{Emmanouil Tsochatzis (Aarhus University, Department of Food Science, Denmark)}

10.45 – 11.15
Presentation 2
Analytical methods to assess the safety of FCM. The challenge of NIAS analysis
_{Christina Nerín (University of Zaragoza, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Spain)}

11.15 – 11.45
Presentation 3
Empowering Enforcement: Translating Research into Tools for Competent Authorities and Industry
_{Antonella Cavazza (University of Parma, Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, Italy)}

11.45 – 12.00
Q&A

12.00 – 13.00
Break

13.00 – 13.45
Presentation 4
Possible future EU policy and rules on Food Contact Materials (FCMs)
_{Martinus Nagtzaam/Jonathan Briggs (European Commission, DG SANTE, E2)}

13.45 – 15.45
Workshop
Interactive discussion with industry / laboratories / researchers / authorities
_{Victoria Krauter (HCW)}

15.45 – 16.00
Closing
Summary and outlook
_{Victoria Krauter (HCW)}