Food Packaging Forum
The Food Packaging Forum helps stakeholders make informed decisions about food packaging. They bring in the latest science on chemicals in food contact materials and on the environmental impacts of packaging.
The work of Food Packaging Forum is carried out by a team of scientists, engineers, and project managers with support from a Scientific Advisory Board and oversight from a Foundation Board.
Through its independent, balanced, and science-based publications and tools, the Food Packaging Forum contributes to protecting human and environmental health.
Example: food contact chemicals
Jane Muncke, Managing Director and Chief Scientific Officer at Food Packaging Forum: “You know that funny taste water sometimes gets when it’s been in a reusable water bottle, or the red mark that pasta sauce leaves behind in a plastic storage container? This shows how food particles, and the materials that they come into contact with, transmit chemicals. With help from Adessium, we investigated how these ‘food contact chemicals’ affect our food and, as a result, our health. Our publications received more attention than ever in 2024, when we discovered that people are taking in at least 3,601 chemical substances – hundreds of which are harmful – through their food. The results are shocking, but there is also a positive side: now we know which substances are involved, we can reduce them and prevent diseases.”