PlasticsEurope slams French report on alternatives for BPA

Europe’s plastics industry has dismissed as an “unrealistic simplification” a French government report into alternatives to Bisphenol-A (BPA), which is due to be banned in all food packaging across the country with effect from 1 January 2015.
The government’s 70-page report said that “industry representatives say that at the current stage of testing the results are satisfactory for the large majority of the substitutes used, and they believe they will be broadly ready” for the new law. However this view was contested by PlasticsEurope, which said the conclusion did not represent industry consensus about the situation regarding alternatives to BPA (European Plastics News, 4 December 2014).
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