News
The Food Packaging Forum reports on recent developments across the food packaging and health field.
April 16, 2015
EFSA’s CEF Panel considers recycling processes of post-consumer PET safe for all types of foodstuffs except packaged water
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April 16, 2015
Study evaluates use of NHANES biomarker data in chemical risk assessments, more than 100 articles that examine these data expected to be published each year
Topics: biomonitoring, NHANES
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April 15, 2015
Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) assessed current state of affairs with regards to development and use of nanomaterials
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April 14, 2015
Henkel holds series of webinars with its food safety experts
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April 13, 2015
In-depth review on mutagenic/genotoxic aspects of essential oils intended for use in active food packaging
Topics: active packaging
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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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