According to an August 18 edited August 17, 2020 American Chemical Council News Release https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2020/august/micro-and-nanoplastics-detectable-in-human-tissues.html researchers with Arizona State University obtained “… samples … of brain and body tissues … spiked … [them with] nano/microplastic beads … analyzed the sample … [and] showed that they could detect the beads ... Next, the researchers used … mass spectrometry to analyze 47 human liver and fat tissue samples. No materials were spiked into these samples. The team found plastic contamination in the form of monomers, or plastic building blocks, in every sample … [The authors ask] Should people be concerned about the high detection frequency of plastic components in human tissues? … it is concerning that these non-biodegradable materials that are present everywhere can enter and accumulate in human tissues, and we don’t know the possible health effects …” #PlasticWaste #MicroPlastics #NanoPlastics #SingleUsePlastic
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).
