In the 15th meeting of ACCSQ-PFPWG, Thailand was appointed to conduct a survey on the standards and regulations of food contact materials (FCM) among ASEAN member states. From the survey, six countries, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam, have their national standards and regulations of FCM except for Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar. Among these countries, Indonesia has a legislation to regulate plastic, paper, tin plate and glass jar based on Japanese Standards, European Commission Regulation and Code of Federal Regulation (CFR, US.FDA). Thailand and Viet Nam have legislations to control plastic packaging based on Japanese Standards, whereas Philippines uses both Japanese Standards and CFR as references for regulating plastics used in food packaging. Malaysia has standard for packaging materials under Food Regulation 1985 but not specific to certain type of food and only prescribed for PVC. Only Singapore establishes its own regulation to control FCM.

Current status on regulations and standards for food contact materials in ASEAN

245th National Meeting (2013)

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