Industry news provider reports on FPF’s workshop on hazardous substances in food contact materials; chemical risk assessment needs to consider cocktail effects and long-term exposures
September 23, 2014
Harmonizing human and ecological risk assessment of mixtures
EFSA gathers international experts to debate exposures to chemical mixtures
August 8, 2014
New book on chemicals in politics and everyday life
Danish Ecological Council published e-book on chemical regulation, EDCs, nanomaterials and mixture effects
May 27, 2014
Harmonizing risk assessment of mixtures
EFSA to hold colloquium on human and ecological risk assessment of combined exposure to multiple chemicals
April 17, 2014
Alternatives to bisphenol A
Replacement of endocrine disrupting chemical taking place for some products, other applications face more obstacles according to a report in Nature
January 17, 2014
European project on mixture toxicity
European agency launches chemical mixture toxicity project; to focus on mode-of-action of combined chemical exposures
December 6, 2013
Sweden adopts future chemicals policy
Sweden adopts new strategy towards a non-toxic environment, proposes to work on chemical groups to accelerate phase-out of dangerous substances
November 25, 2013
Combined phthalate exposure may exceed regulatory limit
New Danish study on exposure to phthalate mixtures, combined exposure in young men may occasionally exceed safe limit
July 25, 2013
FCMs, a major source of chemical exposure
San Francisco Medicine journal publishes an article linking low-dose exposures, mixture toxicity and developmental origins of disease to food contact materials
