News
The Food Packaging Forum reports on recent developments across the food packaging and health field.
April 10, 2015
Environmental Working Group detected direct and indirect food additive propyl paraben in nearly 50 US snack foods
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April 10, 2015
Society of Toxicology and U.S. Food and Drug Administration make internal training colloquia publicly available
Topics: risk assessment
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April 9, 2015
Interlaboratory comparison study identifies reproducible cytotoxicity assay for nanomaterials
Topics: JRC, nanomaterials
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April 8, 2015
Researchers develop new in vivo assay screen for potential estrogenic activity of chemicals
Topics: endocrine disruptor
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April 7, 2015
Abstract of EFSA’s risk assessment now acknowledges low health concern associated with aggregate exposure to BPA
Topics: bisphenol A, EFSA
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April 2, 2015
Half of REACH registration dossiers appear to contain inadequate data on SVHCs
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April 2, 2015
Exposure during pregnancy affected mouse mothers’ glucose metabolism later in life
Topics: bisphenol A
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April 1, 2015
Episode of TV science program Catalyst entitled “Our chemical lives” now available on ABC website
Topics: endocrine disruptor, exposure
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April 1, 2015
List published to increase transparency and raise awareness among companies
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April 1, 2015
EFSA publishes editorial about its current work on risk assessment methodologies
Topics: EFSA
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