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

February 25, 2013

EFSA publishes approval of liquid absorber polyacrylic acid, sodium salt, crosslinked for use in absorbant pads

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February 25, 2013

Brazil transposed a Mercosur resolution containing a plastics positive list for FCM

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February 25, 2013

American Chemistry Council agrees with need of further EDC research, but criticizes the data evaluation method of the report on EDCs by the UNEP and WHO

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February 22, 2013

EFSA considers PKR recycling process safe for 100% use in food contact materials

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February 20, 2013

Swiss and Italian researchers publish new study comparing the effect of different testing and storage conditions on migration behavior of MOSH, MOAH and DIPN from paperboard into non-fatty dry foodstuffs. Observed levels of migration were in the part per million (ppm) range (mg/kg food). Migration levels were highest for egg pasta packaged in paperboard and enclosed in an outer polypropylene bag.
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February 20, 2013

Interagency report demands more government funding of environmental health research into breast cancer in support of primary prevention

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February 20, 2013

New study estimating BPA exposure to be safe raises opposing voices

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February 20, 2013

New study of mineral oil and diisopropyl naphthalene migration from paper and board under different storage conditions, storage durations and temperatures

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February 19, 2013

WHO and UNEP State of the Science report calls uncertainties and knowledge gaps on EDCs too important to ignore, better testing methods and more comprehensive research required

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February 19, 2013

CHAMACOS study links prenatal BPA exposure to lowered BMI and postnatal BPA exposure to increased BMI

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