According to an October 19, 2020 report published in the journal Nature Food by researchers with Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland who “… investigated the potential exposure of infants to microplastics from consuming formula prepared in polypropylene (PP) infant feeding bottles … infant exposure to microplastics is higher than was previously recognized … [which] highlight an urgent need to assess whether exposure to microplastics … poses a risk to infant health …” – The web link to the report is included in the post on the home page of Plastic Food Packaging Waste News www.pfpw.news at https://pfpw.news/2020/10/22/microplastics-found-in-polypropylene-infant-feeding-bottles/
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).
