Researchers with Leiden University in the Netherlands October 17, 2019 announced a new analytical method that “… opens a new horizon for researchers and stakeholders to understand the fate of nanoplastics in the environment …” https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2019/10/chasing-microplastics – According to the university news release “… Nanoplastics are potentially more harmful than their larger counterparts such as microplastics … Due to their very small particle size, nanoplastics can easily pass biological barriers such as the gut-blood and blood-brain barrier. The hazard of nanoplastics is also associated with co-occurring contaminants that absorb or adsorb to the plastics from their surrounding environment …” – The method is published in the online December 2019 issue of the journal Environmental Pollution and at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749119339600?via%3Dihub – Summarized by Jack Cooper of the Animal Digestible Food Packaging Initiative www.adfpi.org – JLC@adfpi.org – Text to 301 384 8287 #SingleUsePlastics #FoodPackaging #PlasticWaste #PlasticPackaging #MicroPlastic #NanoPlastic
Animal Digestible Food Packaging Initiative
Our reason-for-being/goal/purpose/objective/intent is to convince/inspire/persuade/encourage the food processing industry to establish and fund a public private partnership for the discovery of new food packaging materials that would be digestible by animals (farm animals as well as ubiquitous microbes).
