Establishment of national food safety standard system for food contact materials

Abstract

This paper takes the establishment of the national food safety standard system for food contact materials （FCM） as the mainline， combined with the role of FCM risk monitoring， risk assessment and related basic research， to demonstrate the achievements of China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment in the safety management of FCM in the past ten years since its establishment. The current shortcomings for the safety management of FCM are analyzed， and the follow-up work directions are proposed.

Keywords

• food contact materials
• food safety
• risk management
• standard system