According to the abstract of research published November 2, 2020 in the journal Environmental Science and Pollution Research by researchers with universities in Iran, Spain and Egypt the “… potential threat to freshwater ecosystems [of microplastics] remains an open question … the negative impacts of MPs were investigated on blood biochemical parameters in the European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis) … These results suggest that changes in the blood biochemical parameters could be an appropriate bio-indicator to evidence the existence of tissue damage in E. orbicularis …” – The web link to the abstract is included in the post on the home page of Plastic Food Packaging Waste News http://www.pfpw.news at https://pfpw.news/2020/11/04/microplastics-effects-on-turtles-studied/ #MicroPlastics #NanoPlastics #PlasticWaste #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).
