February 3 – 4, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST

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2-Day Virtual Conference

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Who Should Attend:   

Packaging developers and engineers, regulatory affairs, quality and compliance teams, EHS/sustainability professionals, procurement, converters, and brand owners.

Overview: 

This virtual conference equips packaging, regulatory, and sustainability professionals with the know-how to ensure compliant, safe, and circular packaging systems. Over two focused half-days, you’ll learn how to assess biopolymers, evaluate recycled materials across food, medical, and cosmetics uses, verify recycled-content and supply chain traceability, and ensure inks, coatings, and multi-layer structures meet food contact regulatory requirements. Join us as we connect the regulatory dots and translate them to hands-on steps to bring together compliance, safe use, recycled materials, and evolving sustainability requirements and provide you a clear, actionable path forward in today’s rapidly changing marketplace. 

Key Outcomes: 

  • How to determine regulatory status and safe-use for bio-based and biodegradable polymers across major markets. 
  • How to qualify PCR/industrial recycled inputs for food contact, medical devices, and cosmetics packaging, including when additional testing or restricted use is required. 
  • How to verify recycled content and chain-of-custody claims and prepare for audits. 
  • How to evaluate multi-layer packages (barriers, tie layers, adhesives) for compliance and migration risk. 
  • How to manage inks/coatings (including NIAS) for sustainable designs without compromising safety. 
  • How to apply exposure-led toxicological risk assessment to packaging decisions and documentation. 
  • How to prepare a defensible compliance dossier and communicate with regulators and customers. 

Cost: 
Please note: You will need to copy and paste the applicable discount code. The code must be entered on the checkout page during registration.

  • Regular Ticket $499 USD 
  • Earlybird Regular Ticket (until December 31, 2025): $425 USD
    • Use discount code: SustainablePackagingComplianceDec31
  • Group Tickets (3 or more): $450 USD
    • Use discount code: SustainablePackagingComplianceGroup
  • Earlybird Group Tickets (3 or more) (until December 31, 2025): $380 USD
    • Use discount code: SustainablePackagingComplianceEarlyGroupDec31

Agenda:

Day 1 – Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Time (EST) Description
9:00 – 9:10 Introduction to Intertek
Speaker: Naeem Mady
9:10 – 9:50 Is Your Multi-Layer Packaging in Compliance?
Speaker: Ashli Henderson Span

  • Barrier & tie-layer considerations; adhesives; cumulative migration; worst-case stacking
  • Managing formulation changes and supply variability
9:50 – 10:25 Recycle Notifications - Insights into the US FDA NOL Program
Speakers: Mason Myers and Lenny Edwards

  • Overview regarding the US FDA NOL Program, including what kind of information is collected and used in a typical NOL submission to the FDA
  • Insights into the surrogate contaminant test and how it is conducted
10:25 – 10:40 Break
10:40 – 11:15 Safe Use of Recycled Materials in Food, Medical & Cosmetics Packaging
Speaker: Taylor Cavanaugh

  • Approaches for qualifying PCR streams; sector-specific expectations (food contact, medical, cosmetics)
  • Process qualification, challenge testing concepts, cleanliness, and allowable conditions of use
  • Labeling, claims, and documentation to support customer/regulatory inquiries
11:15 – 11:50 Recycling Supply Chain & Recycled-Content Verification
Speaker: Tommy Savarese

  • Circularity frameworks, chain-of-custody models, audit trails, and mass-balance approaches
  • Evidence required to substantiate recycled-content claims and avoid greenwashing
11:50 – 12:00 Final Questions and Wrap Up

 

Day 2 – Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Time (EST) Description
9:00 – 9:05 Welcome
9:05 – 9:40 Biopolymers in Sustainable Packaging: Compliance & Safe Use
Speakers: Rebekah Morrow & Dennis Ashford

  • Scope: synthetic vs. natural biopolymers, bio-based vs. biodegradable, compostability vs. recyclability
  • Regulatory mapping (e.g., global food-contact frameworks), migration considerations, additives, and NIAS
  • Designing studies: worst-case vs. specific migration, solvent selection, and temperature/time matrices
9:40 – 10:15 Inks & Coatings Compliance for Sustainable Designs
Speaker: Chloe Lay

  • Role of overprint varnishes, primers, and coatings; NIAS screening; print-process variability
  • Practical controls for low-migration printing and recycled substrates
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 11:05 Toxicology & Risk Assessment – Practicum
Speaker: Nick Jermstad & Guillaume Letellier

  • Exposure estimation, threshold of toxicological concern concepts, PDE/TDI alignment, vulnerable populations, and uncertainty factors
  • Translating analytics into safety conclusions; writing clear, defensible assessments
11:05 – 11:50 Panel Discussion: “Circular by Design—Without Compromise”
Panelists: Naeem Mady & speakers

  • Experts debate trade-offs among safety, performance, and sustainability; live Q&A
11:50 – 12:00 Final Questions and Wrap Up