European Council adopts revised waste legislation; rules define recycling targets, extended producer responsibility schemes
Revised waste legislation adopted in the EU
Chinese Food Contact Materials Regulations
Plastics and Human Health Symposium
Exposures and Latent Disease Risk: Moving Forward
Epigenesis in response to stress and toxicants
Adverse environmental influences during childhood act through epigenetic mechanisms to increase disease rates in adults; trigger factors include stress and childhood trauma, malnourishment, exposure to toxicants
Towards safe and sustainable food contact materials in European healthcare
Food Contact Regulations: Asia Pacific and Eurasia
Substitution means innovation
New report by non-profit organization ChemSec shows that regulating and substituting hazardous chemicals promotes innovation, safer and better products, and overall economic benefits