News
The Food Packaging Forum reports on recent developments across the food packaging and health field.
April 3, 2017
Updated meeting minutes of EFSA’s CEF Panel working group on FCMs now available online
Topics: EFSA
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April 3, 2017
Scientists analyze French natural mineral waters and spring waters at bottling plants; hormones, pharmaceuticals, phthalates not detected; few samples contain low levels of herbicides, alkylphenols, or PFASs
Reading time: 2 minutes
March 31, 2017
Scientists assess short- and long-term migration from epoxy and acrylic-phenolic can coatings into food simulants; standard migration protocols need to be modified to better predict migration after long-term storage
Topics: can coatings, migration
Reading time: 1 minute
March 31, 2017
Assessment of corporate chemicals management will be included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI); update reflects investors’ growing interest in chemical sustainability
Topics: substitution, SVHC
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March 31, 2017
Scientists characterize global patterns of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in the environment; emissions likely to continue for years to come; more research needed to cover PFASs other than PFOS and PFOA
Topics: exposure, fluorinated substances
Reading time: 3 minutes
March 31, 2017
Scientists apply radiolabeling to study internal distribution of perfluorocarboxylic acids in mice; find uptake of both long- and short-chain substances in various tissues; method broadly applicable to study PFAS distribution in body and environment
Topics: exposure, fluorinated substances
Reading time: 2 minutes
March 31, 2017
Scientists show that for PET bottles accelerated migration tests overestimate real long-term migration; suggest use of migrant- and polymer-specific diffusion parameters instead of default values
Reading time: 2 minutes
March 30, 2017
Article highlights increasing popularity of bulk, unpackaged foods in the U.S. and outlines benefits for both retailers and consumers: High margins, less food and packaging waste, price savings, familiarizing with new foods
Topics: recycling
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March 30, 2017
JRC and partners of EU project NanoDefine develop strategy for identifying nanomaterials based on particles’ volume specific surface area (VSSA)
Reading time: 2 minutes
March 29, 2017
EFSA launches public consultation on its draft policy on independence; deadline for submitting comments is May 5, 2017
Topics: EFSA
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