Henkel kicks off 2017 food safe packaging webinar series

This year, Henkel will be holding 10 live webinars in English language. In these webinars, experts will talk about different topics relating to adhesives in packaging and the requirements food packaging has to fulfill. To meet global participation interests, every webinar is held at 09:00 CET for interested parties from the eastern world and repeated at 16:00 CET for the western part of the world. In addition, eight webinars are held in Spanish and Portuguese, catering to the Latin American region.

The first food safe packaging webinar of 2017 took place today (March 8) on the topic of ‘Assessing the risks of food contact materials’. In this interactive webinar, Dr Jörg Feesche looked into the area of toxicological evaluations and risk assessments as important contribution to food safe packaging.

The next webinar in 2017 takes place on March 29, covering ‘Migration testing in flexible packaging’. Dr Dennis Bankmann will focus on migration testing in film and foil lamination, and will explain the legal background of migration testing and talk about the specific considerations for reactive polyurethane adhesives. Furthermore, he will present in detail the common pitfalls in migration testing and will give best practices how to avoid these pitfalls.

Those interested can visit www.henkel.com/foodsafety to download the complete calendar or directly register for webinars covering topics from migration testing and mineral oil components in food packaging adhesives, to risk assessment of NIAS, global food contact legislation and primary aromatic amines (PAA).

Henkel offers its expertise to users through the online Food Safe Packaging Portal. Over the last four years, the portal has constantly been updated, providing expert knowledge for the food industry as well as other related sectors. A premium area provides access to white papers, webinars and an FAQ section covering a range of key issues.