News tagged with food packaging
Big on obesogens: Biologist believes industrial pollutants contributing to America's obesity epidemic
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With obesity emerging as a leading health threat to Americans, it’s easy to blame a couch-potato culture addicted to calorie-rich foods. But UC Irvine biologist Bruce Blumberg doesn’t believe ...
BPA industry seeks to polish chemical's image
May 31, 2009 |
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Frustrated at media portrayals of bisphenol A as a dangerous chemical, food-packaging executives and lobbyists for the chemical makers met last week at an exclusive Washington, D.C., club where they hammered out a strategy, ...
Researchers to develop coatings that kill superbugs
Mar 19, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Bath are to be part of a €3 million Europe-wide research collaboration to pioneer research into safer, more effective anti-bacterial plastics and coatings that can be used ...
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Use of nanomaterials in food packaging poses regulatory challenges
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 25, 2008 |
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[B]Report uses product scenarios to examine the oversight and regulatory pathways to commercialization[/B] Engineered nanoscale materials (ENMs), which contain novel properties that offer potential benefits for use in foo ...
My Organic Baby food recalled in Canada
Jan 29, 2008 |
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Vaughan, Canada-based My Organic Baby has issued recalls on four varieties of infant cereal after inspection found some of the food to be rancid.
New research will seal the future of green packaging
Nov 20, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Bath and the food & drinks research centre at Campden BRI are leading a project to create a new high speed environmentally-friendly packaging process that will use recycled ...
Wine in a box? Think 'good' not 'gauche'
Jun 04, 2009 |
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In a surprise discovery that may help boxed wine shake off its image as a gauche alternative to bottles, scientists in Canada are reporting that multilayer aseptic cartons (a.k.a. ‘boxes’) may help reduce ...
New test finds diisobutyl phthalate in some cardboard food packaging -- recycling is the issue
Nov 28, 2007 |
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A new test can identify take-away paper-based food containers (such as pizza boxes) that break phthalate safety rules. The phthalates (plasticisers) are present because the containers were made from pulp that contained at ...
Hormone-mimics in plastic water bottles -- just the tip of the iceberg?
Mar 26, 2009 |
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In an analysis1 of commercially available mineral waters, the researchers found evidence of estrogenic compounds leaching out of the plastic packaging into the water. What's more, these chemicals are potent in vivo and result ...
Food for thought: delivering the promise of food processing
Jan 04, 2008 |
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Humans have transformed raw ingredients into food since prehistoric times. But scientists are still looking for new ways to make food taste better and survive longer. Presenting their findings at a recent European Science ...
Food for thought: delivering the promise of food processing
Jan 04, 2008 |
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Humans have transformed raw ingredients into food since prehistoric times. But scientists are still looking for new ways to make food taste better and survive longer. Presenting their findings at a recent European Science ...
Why eating less can help the environment
Jul 23, 2008 |
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An estimated 19 percent of total energy used in the USA is taken up in the production and supply of food. Currently, this mostly comes from non-renewable energy sources which are in short supply. It is therefore of paramount ...
Far flung food: Europe's distant diets
Dec 10, 2007 |
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Across the European Union, food is travelling more, and not always in ways that make sense. Consider the chocolate covered waffle: Last year, Britain both imported 14,000 tonnes, and exported 15,000 tonnes. And it is not ...
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