Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) announces the release of an updated version of the Louisville Charter for Safer Chemicals; new ten-part roadmap created to “transform the chemical industry” and “alleviate its disproportionate harm” on marginalized communities; calls for requiring safer substitutes, incentivizing companies to innovate

Scientists from Ural Feral University publish study in Journal of Food Engineering ; develop three types of edible films for food packaging based on seaweed, alginate; describe films as water-soluble and dissolve by almost 90 percent, no special equipment needed to produce at industrial scale