On November 2, 2020, the National Academies released the Proceedings of a Workshop–in Brief which addresses the “… potential of … new biomarkers to measure adverse health effects that may arise from exposure to environmental pollutants … Biomarkers of effect are measurable changes in an individual that indicate health impairment or disease. Although biomarkers have long been a crucial part of medical practice – blood pressure is a simple example – researchers have recently identified a variety of new biomarkers that signal the presence of conditions such as nervous system damage, autoimmune disorders, and cancer …” - The web link to the workshop proceedings is included in the post on the home page of Plastic Food Packaging Waste News http://www.pfpw.news at https://pfpw.news/2020/11/03/environmental-contaminants-use-of-biomarkers-to-measure-adverse-health-effects/ #PlasticWaste #MicroPlastics #NanoPlastics #Biomarkers
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).
