A Familiar Hurdle

In the meantime, The RadTech Food Contact Notification Alliance has recently completed development of an acrylate toxicity profile and found nothing that would compromise safe use in food packaging. “Extraction studies completed under FDA-required protocols confirm that both UV- and EB-curing formulations can be designed, applied, and cured under conditions which assure that extractable monomer, oligomer, and photoinitiator levels will be at or below concentrations that can be considered safe for use in food packaging,” according to an FCN Alliance update on RadTech’s Web site. “Initial feedback from the FDA suggests that preliminary data submitted by the Alliance on acrylate monomer toxicity already may be sufficient to support food packaging safety claims for at least two of the monomers submitted for clearance under the FCN. The Alliance plans to conduct two additional toxicity tests to complete clearances for the remaining monomers under consideration.”