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Committee advances Safer Food Packaging Act to ban certain chemicals from food contact materials
Summary
AB 1148 would ban phthalates, bisphenols (with specified alternatives accepted) and antimony trioxide from food‑contact packaging. Supporters emphasized links between these chemicals and cancer and developmental harms; industry groups urged more time for regulatory review and raised technical concerns about antimony in PET plastics.
The Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee voted to pass AB 1148 to the Committee on Judiciary on April 8. The committee recommended the bill be passed as amended.
Assemblymember Dr. Donna Sharp Collins presented AB 1148, the Safer Food Packaging Act, which would prohibit three categories of chemicals in food contact materials: phthalates, bisphenols (with TMBPF accepted as an amended safe alternative for bisphenols), and antimony trioxide. Sharp Collins and sponsoring groups said the chemicals migrate from packaging into…
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