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Report: European supermarkets falling short on packaging commitments

Changing Markets Foundation and Break Free From Plastic investigate plastic pollution related actions made by 74 of the largest European supermarkets; Total average score of retailers was just 13/100, only Aldi UK and Aldi Ireland scored above 60; over 80% of companies had no information on total plastic use which “casts doubt” over plastic reduction pledges because there is no baseline data

Events 2022 Workshop

Taking stock of the past decade: What has changed and what’s to come?

Save the date in your calendar for our next annual workshop that will take place on September 28, 2023 (both in Zurich and virtually)! To mark its 10th anniversary, the Food Packaging Forum held its 10th annual workshop on October 6, 2022, under a theme that looked back at what has changed over the past decade in the field of food packaging and health as well as at what lies ahead in the next decade to come. Featuring a diverse […]

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Chemical Hazard Data Commons

U.S. NGO Healthy Building Network launches free online resource Chemical Hazard Data Commons aggregating hazard determinations for over 85 000 substances, aimed to facilitate substitution of hazardous chemicals

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Scientists propose and apply NIAS identification approaches

Review provides guidance to select analytical technique for non-intentionally added substances (NIAS) identification and quantification in food contact materials (FCMs); scientific studies analyze NIAS migrating from FCMs; develop model to predict collision cross-section values to identify NIAS in FCMs; detect polyethylene terephthalate (PET) oligomers in post-mortem blood samples