Environmental waste has surged to record levels as coronavirus forced retailers and restaurants to increase single use disposable packaging. This increase has resulted in regulatory and consumer pressure to monitor and reduce overall contamination such as extractables and heavy metals in the environment. This monitoring includes the continuous refinement of maximum allowable concentration threshold levels in food packaging to increase consumer and environmental safety.<br/>One of the greatest hurdles to realistic and attainable regulatory oversight is the lack of historical data to make data driven threshold recommendations. The purpose of this presentation is to discuss environmental and human exposure to contaminants such as heavy metals, PFAS, and total extractables in food packaging and potential solutions to increase consumer safety and sustainability efforts.

Monitoring consumer and environmental exposure to contaminants from food packaging and data driven solutions for sustainability

ACS Spring Meeting 2021

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