Material matters
Science on the Menu: A Food Safety Podcast by EFSA
European Food Safety Authority
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🗓️ 18 October 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Our food and drinks encounter all kinds of materials – plastic, metal, glass, and ceramics to name a few. But what are the health risks? And faced with the growing problem of plastic pollution, how is food packaging changing? Tune in to find out more! We’ll take you on a journey from plastic to metal to bamboo, from recycling to new intelligent materials. Grab your reusable drinking bottle and join us for this latest edition of Science on the Menu.
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| 0:00.0 | Science on the Menu, a podcast by the European Food Safety Authority. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Science on the Menu. |
| 0:24.9 | My name is Ed Bray and I work in EFSA's Communications Team. |
| 0:28.7 | And joining me today is Christina Croera from EFSA's Food Contact Materials team. |
| 0:33.7 | Hi, Christina. |
| 0:34.5 | I had. Thanks for inviting me. |
| 0:37.2 | Welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:39.3 | Today we're going to be talking about food contact materials. |
| 0:42.7 | Now, if you're listening at home and you're about to have something to eat, a snack while you're listening, the food contact materials could be many things. |
| 0:50.7 | It could be the plate, for example, that you might eat your snack on. |
| 0:53.8 | They could be the knife and fork you used to eat it. It could be the plate, for example, that you might eat your snack on. They could be the knife and fork you use to eat it. |
| 0:56.3 | It could be the packaging that comes with the food. Or it could even be the glass that you're about to drink some water from. |
| 1:04.2 | So these are just a few examples. There are many. Christina, can you give us some more examples of food contact materials and where we |
| 1:11.5 | find them actually in our everyday lives? |
| 1:14.5 | Food content. The material, as you said indeed, are material that can come into contact with food |
| 1:20.1 | and drinks. And so, of course, they are the final products. They are in the final products, |
| 1:26.1 | like bottles, reusable bottle, |
| 1:30.3 | cutlery dishes, but also the equipment that are used to produce this final material, |
| 1:36.3 | or are in containers for water or for coffee machine, these kind of things, whatever can be |
| 1:43.3 | in contact with the drinks or food that we |
| 1:46.8 | are supposed to. |
| 1:48.3 | Okay. |
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