Propylene glycol is a synthetic food additive that belongs to the same chemical group as alcohol. It is a colorless, odorless, slightly syrupy liquid that is a bit thicker than water. It has ...

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A growing pool of studies finds concerning levels of plastic and forever chemicals in our common food items and their packaging. Here’s what you need to know. Chick fil-A used to be my guilty ...

Now, thanks to a new study about the plastic chemicals found in food packaging, that sandwich is dead to me. A team of scientists and concerned citizens recently tested more than 300 unique foods ...

and reduce food waste. While there has been commercial interest in plastic food packaging containing antimicrobial silver nanoparticles, it is not approved in the US or Europe. That caution might ...

ORNL's invention may change plastic's environmental fate by rearranging polymeric building blocks to customize the properties of plastics. Molecular subunits link to produce polymer chains that ...

ORNL’s invention may change plastic’s environmental fate by rearranging polymeric building blocks to customize the properties of plastics. Molecular subunits link to produce polymer chains that can ...

On microplastics, the study found that plastic particles smaller than 5mm in diameter mostly came from larger post-consumer plastic products, like food containers or takeaway cups. Such products ...