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The Food Packaging Forum reports on recent developments across the food packaging and health field.

March 23, 2015

Individual-level data published for BPA oral absorption study

New study provides urine and serum profiles of BPA in 10 volunteers who participated in Teeguarden et al. (2015) study
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March 23, 2015

Special chemical searchers in Wikipedia

Swiss researchers develop new tool allowing substructure and similarity searchers for molecules in Wikipedia
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March 23, 2015

US: Bill to introduce BPA warnings on food packaging

US Senator Diane Feinstein introduces “BPA in Food Packaging Right to Know Act”
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March 20, 2015

Conference on biobased packaging

“Biobased Packaging 2015” will take place in May 2015 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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March 19, 2015

Toxic body burden of Americans

Bill Couzens from Next Generation Choices Foundation encourages US consumers to act on the issue of harmful chemicals
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March 19, 2015

Authorship of chemicals bill questioned

Authorship of new chemical safety act introduced by U.S. Senators David Vitter and Tom Udall is being questioned
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March 18, 2015

Chemical substitutions with no regrets

US scientists discuss how “regrettable substitutions” may be avoided, intentional chemical design needed
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March 18, 2015

ECHA to evaluate 134 substances in years 2015-2017

ECHA adopted Community Rolling Action Plan (CoRAP), 48 substances specified for 2015
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March 17, 2015

Chemical industry view of endocrine disruption

CEFIC’s video explains industry’s view of endocrine disruption, criteria to identify EDCs should include potency, severity and adversity
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March 17, 2015

Teleconference to discuss costs of EDC exposure

Teleconference call featuring authors of recently published studies on costs caused by EDCs will take place on March 24, 2015
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