On Nov. 19-20, 2020, AICM successfully c0-organized 2020 international food contact material safety forum in Beijing. AICM have been closely working with FCM expert committee of CFIA and State Key Laboratory of Food Contact Material Testing (Guangzhou, Changzhou and Ningbo) six years, to organize this forum. For the first time, the forum adopted the combination of offline and online methods, and invited 18 domestic and foreign government experts and industry representatives to share and exchange ideas on domestic and foreign regulations, risk management and sustainable development of food contact materials. More than 300 representatives from more than 100 enterprises in the food contact material industry participated in the offline meeting, among which AICM organized 34 representatives from 25 companies to attend the meeting.
Experts from NHC, SAMR, Customs and other departments shared their wonderful speeches on the overall framework of food contact materials standard, the progress of safety standards for each material, testing methods, follow-up evaluation and supervision and inspection. As the representative of the industry, AICM shared the industry's compliance practices, key pain points and initiatives after the implementation of new national standards. During the forum, experts and representatives had extensive and in-depth exchanges on the difficulties and specific issues in the implementation of regulations and standards through question and answer sessions and off-site interactions.
AICM always insists on expanding the communication and cooperation with all stakeholders, and builds the communication platform for member companies, hoping to promote the continuous progress of food contact material safety and compliance management.