On August 27, 2020, the EPA Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2020-08/documents/2020_star_ceh_center_rfa.pdf sought “… applications to support a Center for Early Lifestage Vulnerabilities to Environmental Stressors. EPA is interested in supporting a transdisciplinary research center to better understand potential causal relationships among cumulative exposures to chemicals and non-chemical environmental stressors during early lifestages and modifying factors that result in adverse developmental health effects … The application should include the development and demonstration of novel and revolutionary quantitative methods and approaches to integrate multidisciplinary data (epidemiology, toxicology, exposure science, risk assessment, public health, social science, and environmental science) …” – If micro or nano plastic particles are such stressors, they would likely be eligible for study under this announcement #PlasticWaste #SingleUsePlastic #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).
