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

April 4, 2013

NGOs ask for third party participation in REACH

NGOs send recommendations towards the substitution of Substances of Very High Concern to ECHA

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April 4, 2013

Tox 21 to increase chemical safety

Director of the Hamner Institute proposes pragmatic approach to increase chemical safety

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April 3, 2013

The new WHO/UNEP EDC report a mandatory reading

NIEHS director Linda Birnbaum addresses new EDC report in Environmental Health Perspectives editorial

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April 3, 2013

Study detects antimony migration from PET

FPF reports on study that measured antimony migration at levels well below the official safety limits

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April 3, 2013

Maternal BPA associated with lower birth weight, contradictory results?

Environmental Health Perspectives' journalist Kellyn Betts comments on recent findings inversely associating prenatal BPA exposure and body weight

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April 3, 2013

Conference on non-intentionally added substances

Swiss Food Science meeting 2013 in June focuses on NIAS

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April 2, 2013

PET tight barrier for chemical migration, PE only sink for chemicals

Swiss researchers compare mineral oil, phthalate and UV initiator migration across different barrier materials
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April 2, 2013

Antimony migration from PET

New study investigates extent of antimony migration from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) using EU migration testing rules
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March 30, 2013

U.S. TV channel reports on hormone disruptors from consumer products

NBC Dateline reporter tests herself and her young children for BPA, phthalates and triclosan exposure from food packaging and other everyday products

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March 29, 2013

Recycled paperboard food packaging is a manageable source of chemical contaminants

FPF reports on new European study showing that inner bags can reduce overall migration, depending on material used

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