News
The Food Packaging Forum reports on recent developments across the food packaging and health field.
October 25, 2012
Researchers are discovering low-dose effects of endocrine disruptors since the seventies yet the issue remains a controversy and chemical regulation remains to be modified
October 25, 2012
The EU study DEMOCOPHES measures environmental contaminants such as phthalates in hair and urine of mothers and children
October 25, 2012
On the 29 and 30 October EFSA will meet national experts to discuss information on previous and ongoing work on the safety assessment of bisphenol A
October 22, 2012
The Austrian study Um-MuKi (Environment, mother, child) found lead and bisphenol A in the blood of mothers and children in Bratislava and Vienna
October 22, 2012
Study associates phthalates with 2 year earlier onset of menopause
October 18, 2012
EFSA approved the use of materials derived from four types of recycling processes of PET bottles in food contact materials intended for long term storage.
October 16, 2012
The Federal Office for Public Health in Switzerland (BAG) states that environmental contaminant burden of substances such as phthalates and cadmium found are not at levels that would pose a risk to public health.
October 16, 2012
Final report of a German project on the extend of the presence of printing inks from packaging materials in food stuff published
October 9, 2012
The French senate adopted a legal proposition which would ban Bisphenol A in food packaging designated for children under three years of age. All other packaging intended to come into contact with food would have to state that this product is not suitable for pregnant women and children under three. The amendments made by the senate require now adoption by the French National Assembly.
October 9, 2012
A new in silico study shows that the bisphenol A metabolite MBP has a higher affinity for both human estrogen receptors
