According to a March 29, 2023 The Hoya story https://thehoya.com/new-georgetown-study-will-investigate-nanoplastics-on-animal-health-and-development/ “… very few studies have attempted to quantify the effect of nanoplastic exposure on animal health and development … Georgetown’s physics, chemistry and oncology departments, as well as the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center’s shared zebrafish resource, are in the preliminary stages of an innovative study to understand how environmental exposure to nanoplastics could adversely affect animal health by studying their effects in zebrafish …” #PlasticWaste #SingleUsePlastic #MicroPlastics #NanoPlastics #ZebraFish @thehoya
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).
