According to the abstract of July 27, 2023 ACS Environmental Science and Technology article https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c01566 by researchers with Ningbo University and Ningbo Customs District Technology Center, both in China “… Our study investigated the impact of polyvinyl chloride MPs (PVC-MPs) on white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) infection in shrimp. The results revealed that PVC-MPs obviously increased WSSV replication in vivo, leading to a high mortality rate among the larvae and facilitating the horizontal transmission of WSSV. Furthermore, the data of WSSV loads detected together with qPCR, agarose gel electrophoresis, and flow cytometry approaches indicated that PVC-MPs could interact with the virus to prolong survival and maintain the virulence of WSSV at different temperatures and pH values … these findings highlight that MPs promote shrimp susceptibility to WSSV in two aspects: host immune defense and viral virulence …” #PlasticWaste #SingleUsePlastic #MicroPlastics #whitespotsyndromevirus #shrimp @Ningbo_Uni
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).
