News
The Food Packaging Forum reports on recent developments across the food packaging and health field.
June 18, 2015
Danish research shows that chemical cocktails often have additive effects, thus even small doses of single chemicals are potentially harmful
Topics: mixture toxicity
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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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