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PFAS in Food and Beverage: A Rapidly Escalating Legal Risk
6+ hour, 33+ min ago (639+ words) By Alexandra Bruce Rychlak and Elizabeth Haskins of law firm Baker Donelson Regulators continue to scrutinize the food & beverage industry's use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). These substances have been used since the 1950s to keep food from sticking to…...
New Food explains: What viable PFAS-free food packaging really requires
16+ hour, 14+ min ago (1601+ words) With new EU limits on PFAS in food-contact packaging now in force, New Food speaks to VTT experts about balancing product performance requirements with viable PFAS-free alternatives. A wrapper can keep grease off your fingers but make the food inside…...
Research: Convenience, Ads Fuel Bottled Water Surge
1+ day, 44+ min ago (532+ words) So what is driving this surge in plastic water bottle use? In a survey of over 15,000 people in 81 countries, Concordia researchers found that bottled-water consumption is shaped by a mix of demographic, infrastructure and geographic variables including age, education, access…...
FAO Outlines Risks of Plastic Pollution to Food Safety, Calls for One Health Policy Approach
19+ hour, 14+ min ago (390+ words) The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has published a technical brief examining how plastic pollution moves through agrifood systems and creates interconnected risks to food safety and human, animal, plant, and environmental health. At the same…...
Sprouts Halts Produce Pesticide Use After Texas Investigation
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (374+ words) Sprouts has agreed to stop using ProduceMaxx on its produce nationwide. Sprouts Farmers Market has agreed to stop misting its produce with ProduceMaxx pesticide in a landmark settlement with Texas. ProduceMaxx is a chlorine-based synthetic antimicrobial pesticide. Thousands of grocery…...
Coca-Cola facility in Bellevue sued over alleged polluted runoff reaching Lake Washington
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (386+ words) A local environmental group is suing Swire Coca-Cola, USA, and Western Washington Coca-Cola Bottling. Waste Action Project, a Covington-based nonprofit, claimed polluted runoff from Coca-Cola’s Bellevue bottling facility entered Goff Creek and ultimately Lake Washington. The nonprofit is being represented…...
Discussing the future of organics
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (939+ words) John McKew, has been at the helm of the Australian Organics Recycling Association for four years. Image: AORA Outgoing Australian Organics Recycling Association National Executive Officer John McKew writes on the future of the organics sector. As most of you…...
Microplastics Found in Every Milk Sample Tested, With Plastic Bottles Worst
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (571+ words) Microplastics have turned up in yet another staple of the global diet, and this time the evidence comes with unusually rigorous analytical backup. Researchers at the University of Tabriz examined 30 commercially available milk samples purchased from supermarkets in Tehran, Iran,…...
Central Arkansas residents without fluoride in their water due to nationwide shortage
6+ day, 17+ hour ago (42+ words) Residents in Central Arkansas have been without added fluoride in their water for two weeks due to a nationwide fluoride shortage. Residents in Central Arkansas have been without added fluoride in their water for two weeks due to a nationwide…...
Go with the flow: do you need to filter US tap water?
1+ week, 1+ day ago (21+ words) Yahoo Style UK Your privacy is important to us...