News
The Food Packaging Forum reports on recent developments across the food packaging and health field.
June 18, 2015
Mumbay-based NGO tests plastic bottles and finds elevated heavy metal levels; NGO now demands ban of plastic bottles used as packaging
Topics: lead
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June 16, 2015
The State of California wants to add styrene to list of known carcinogens, resultantly food packaging made from polystyrene might require warning label
Topics: regulation
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June 16, 2015
National Geographic reports on why scientists increasingly engage in environmental and public health debates
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June 16, 2015
RIVM develops framework to evaluate applicability of read-across for nanomaterials; approach proves useful in hypothetical case studies, but additional information is needed
Topics: nanomaterials
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June 15, 2015
EU project EuroMix has been launched to investigate strategies for chemical mixture testing
Topics: mixture toxicity
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June 12, 2015
Endocrine disrupting chemicals are topic of two TV reports, lobbying influences on EU policy discussed, internal industry documents revealing delay tactics
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June 12, 2015
The Risk Assessment Committee (RAC) of ECHA agrees to restrict BPA in thermal paper
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June 11, 2015
A new study finds that early exposure to BPA reduces parental care in mice
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June 11, 2015
OECD reveals results of testing program on nanomaterials and concludes that standard chemical testing guidelines are mostly applicable to nanomaterials
Topics: nanomaterials
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June 10, 2015
New York Times reports on new study showing significant increase in global diabetes and obesity rates
Topics: epidemiology, obesity
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