News
The Food Packaging Forum reports on recent developments across the food packaging and health field.
September 20, 2018
Non-profit organization Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families includes 12 new retailers in annual ranking of progress towards eliminating toxic chemicals and using safer alternatives
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September 20, 2018
Website of Danish Ministry of Environment and Food informs consumers about chemicals in everyday products and how to reduce unnecessary exposures
Topics: exposure
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September 19, 2018
Food Packaging Forum publishes fact sheet on chemicals in food packaging, migration into food, ways to reduce exposure
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September 19, 2018
French National Assembly adopts law banning plastic food containers in child care, school, university catering services by 2025
Topics: plastics, regulation
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September 18, 2018
European Parliament votes to approve Commission’s plastics strategy, adopts resolution on hazardous chemicals and recycling
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September 17, 2018
Mice exposed to low doses of BPA, BPS, diphenyl sulfone, BPF, BPAF exhibit chromosomal abnormalities that persist for several generations, according to new study in Current Biology
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September 17, 2018
ChemSec hosts webinar explaining its SIN List on October 3, 2018; registration now open
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September 17, 2018
U.S. court rules against FDA’s request to dismiss NGO-lawsuit on ‘generally recognized as safe’ rule
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September 14, 2018
South Korea notifies WTO of intended ban on bisphenol A, dibutyl phthalate, benzyl butyl phthalate in food contact materials for infants and young children
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September 14, 2018
Carnegie Mellon University and FDA hold webinars on CLARITY-BPA academic research and guideline studies; FDA upholds importance of high-dose effects; academic researchers highlight significant low-dose effects
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