Systematic scoping review assesses the research literature covering plastic’s effects on human health, the environment, and food security/economics through the entire food system from 2000 through 2018; includes over 3,300 studies; found majority of previous research focused on food security/economics; identified gaps related to studies on the effect of plastics on human health, meta-analyses, and research within low-income nations
May 5, 2021
Study: migration into dry foods higher than US FDA assumption
Comprehensive literature review in the journal Food Additives and Contaminants investigates substance migration into dry foods and food simulants; review analyses: foods off store shelves, foods and food simulants in experimental settings, food particle characteristics, and packaging material; finds migration commonly exceeds 50 µg/kg assumed migration rate of dry foods according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
September 7, 2018
Mechanistic data in hazard assessment
Academic and industry scientists debate whether use of mechanistic data in regulatory hazard assessment of chemicals should be decisive or supportive only, discuss study selection process for systematic reviews
March 29, 2018
EFSA report on evidence integration
EFSA publishes report of its colloquium on evidence integration in chemical risk assessment, held October 25-26, 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal
October 27, 2017
Integrating evidence in risk assessment
EFSA and Evidence-based Toxicology Collaboration (EBTC) hold joint colloquium on evidence integration in risk assessment; address systematic review methodology, meta-analysis of bias, qualitative and quantitative methods in evidence integration from multiple sources
