ILSI Europe Releases Guidance for Analyzing Non-Intentionally Added Substances from Food Contact Materials
ILSI Europe’s “Black and White” reports are a series of science-based guidance documents targeted to the food and beverage industry. The newest report in the series provides a comprehensive introduction to analyzing Non-Intentionally Added Substances (NIAS), which are chemicals that are present in a food contact material (FCM) and can migrate into a food product, but were not purposefully added to the food itself during the production process.
The report considers non-harmonized FCMs, highlighting various FCMs and their unique requirements for analysis of migrants, specifically, Intentionally Added Substances (IAS) or NIAS. The document presents background information on different testing conditions for various FCMs and why the standard tests used for plastics outlined in the European Commission Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 (published in January 2011 and covering plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food) are inappropriate in some instances for many non-harmonized FCMs.