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

April 4, 2014

Method for measuring nanoparticles

Scientific publication details new method for measuring the precise dose of nanomaterials in cells and fluids, important advancement for risk assessment of entire material class

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April 3, 2014

WHO publishes report on EDCs

New report by the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Europe addresses the risks from exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals, recommends actions at the country level

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April 3, 2014

Triclosan and breast cancer growth

New study shows that xenoestrogens triclosan, octylphenol stimulate growth of breast cancer cells via an estrogen-receptor dependent pathway

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April 3, 2014

Gold standard for detection of free BPA

New study evaluates how to avoid inadvertent contamination in serum samples for analysis of unconjugated, free BPA

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April 2, 2014

Opinion: TTIP is a remarkable opportunity

The transatlantic trade agreement could bring EU and US chemical regulation closer while maintaining high standards, argues CEFIC director

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April 2, 2014

20% of companies registered wrongly under REACH

REACH enforcement project finds non-compliance amongst registrants, REACH forum to focus next on chemical phase out

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April 2, 2014

European Commission on nanomaterial inventory

European Commission and Member States to weigh options for increasing transparency on nanomaterial use

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April 2, 2014

TTC: EFSA found guilty of maladministration

European Ombudsman condemns EFSA twice for maladministration, EFSA’s TTC evaluation biased towards TTC

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April 1, 2014

Standardizing Benchmark Dose (BMD) calculations

New study assesses reliability of standardized Benchmark Dose calculations, more dose groups and lower number of animals make for better BMD model
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April 1, 2014

New FPF report: Standardized BMD modeling

New study develops a standardized approach to BMD modeling, allows for the batch-calculation of BMDs and BMDLs of large dose response data sets

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