According to the abstract of a June 21, 2023 Environmental Science & Technology article, titled “Assessing the Release of Microplastics and Nanoplastics from Plastic Containers and Reusable Food Pouches: Implications for Human Health” https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.3c01942 by researchers with University of Nebraska─Lincoln and University of Nebraska Medical Center who “… investigated the release of microplastics and nanoplastics from plastic containers and reusable food pouches under different usage scenarios ... The results indicated that microwave heating caused the highest release of microplastics and nanoplastics into food … Refrigeration and room-temperature storage for over six months can also release millions to billions of microplastics and nanoplastics … an in vitro study conducted to assess the cell viability showed that the extracted microplastics and nanoplastics released from the plastic container can cause the death of 76.70 and 77.18% of human embryonic kidney cells ...” #MicroPlastics #NanoPlastics #PlasticWaste #SingleUsePlastic @UNLincoln
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).
