Packaging Safety

Quote of the Week
"The latest lawsuits are all about potential exposure from hand to mouth."
EILEEN M. NOTTOLI, CHEMIST AND ENVIROMENTAL ATTORNEY, ALLEN MATKINS – p. 22
August 31, 2009
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Highlights

Cover Story
Leachates From Packaging
Scientists track down chemicals migrating into food and drugs, define levels harmful to human health. (pp. 11-15)

Business
Seeking Angels (Member Content)
ACS Meeting News: University inventors connect with experienced alumni to start new businesses. (pp. 18-19)

Science & Technology
Troublesome Drug Metabolites (Member Content)
ACS Meeting News: Toxicologists pool their knowledge to advance safety testing of drug candidates. (pp. 27-28)
Table of Contents
News Of The Week
Molecule's Atoms, Bonds Visualized p. 6
High-resolution AFM technique makes even hydrogen atom positions visible.
Turning Methane Into Methanol p. 7
Recyclable platinum compound mediates oxidation at low temperature.
Cost Of REACH Underestimated p. 7
European Union's chemical testing program may require millions more animals and euros than expected.
P&G Sells Drug Unit To Warner Chilcott p. 8
Acquisition expands drug firm's specialty product lines in the U.S. .
Nitrous Oxide Threat To Ozone p. 8
As halocarbons decline, N2O emerges as a chemical of concern.
Heat-And-Serve Polymer Composites p. 9
Latent acid catalyst simplifies premixing and curing phenolic resins.
Brazilian Chemicals p. 9
Country's top two chemical firms may be in merger talks.
Lonza Launches Bid For Patheon p. 10
Deal would extend the Swiss firm's services to finished-dosage drugs.
Carbon Costs p. 10
New study measures impact on industry.
Business

Seeking Angels pp. 18-19 (Member Content)
ACS Meeting News: University inventors connect with experienced alumni to start new businesses.
Babies On Board p. 20 (Member Content)
The bisphenol A controversy gives Eastman's new polymer an edge in the infant care market.
Business Concentrates pp. 16-17 (Member Content)
- LyondellBasell Upgrades For Feedstock Flexibility
- LyondellBasell Industries is embarking on projects at its Corpus Christi, Texas, plant...
- Firms License Technology In China
- Several Western companies have won contracts to license petrochemical technologies to Chinese firms...
- U.K. Nanotech Firm Wins More Funding
- Surrey NanoSystems has secured about $4.2 million in its second round of venture capital funding...
- AFDC Energy, Ineos To Capture Hydrogen
- Fuel-cell manufacturer AFC Energy has signed a letter of intent with Ineos ChlorVinyls to develop a hydrogen-fuel-cell project...
- DuPont Boosts Resins For Solar Films
- DuPont plans to invest more than $120 million to boost its capacity for monomer and resin used to produce Tedlar polyvinyl fluoride films...
- Soy Replaces Petroleum Toners
- A soy-based resin will make possible laser printer replacement toner cartridges that are 35% or more biobased...
- BASF Eyes Magnetics For Refrigeration
- BASF and the power equipment company Delta Electronics are cooperating on new cooling systems that use magnet technology...
- Hengrui Gets Okay For U.S. Trials
- Shanghai-based Hengrui Pharmaceuticals has obtained FDA’s approval to start Phase I human trials in the U.S. for retagliptin, a compound for treating type 2 diabetes...
- Astellas To Add Fermentation Unit
- Japan’s Astellas Pharma has started construction of a $58 million fermentation unit in Toyama, in western Japan...
- Vaccine Research Heads Into Space
- Hitching a ride on the shuttle Discovery is a scientific payload...
- Struggling Biotechs Find Merger Partners
- Two struggling biotechnology companies are being acquired by stronger firms. MediciNova has entered a deal to acquire Avigen for about $37 million...
- Cambrex Gets FDA Warning Letter
- Cambrex says it has received a warning letter from FDA connected with a March 2009 inspection of the company’s generic active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturing (API) facility in Milan, Italy...
- Business Roundup
- Perstorp, Advent International, Profectus Biosciences and the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative,Biovail Laboratories, Nanotherapeutics, Gloucester Pharmaceuticals, Shire, ProStrakan...
ACS News

ACS Meeting In Photos pp. 34-35
Photos from the fall national meeting in Washington, D.C.
Government & Policy

Screening Toys pp. 22-23 (Member Content)
ACS Meeting News: Stricter regulatory limits for lead and phthalates create analytical challenges.
Chemical Export Controls p. 24 (Member Content)
ACS Meeting News: International restrictions on chemicals aim to deter terrorism.
Government & Policy Concentrates p. 21 (Member Content)
- Bayer To Cut Use Of Methyl Isocyanate
- Bayer CropScience announced last week it would reduce by 80% its inventory of methyl isocyanate (MIC) at its Charleston, W.Va., facility...
- Climate Bill Called Threat To Refining
- U.S. fuel-refining operations would be forced to move overseas and the nation would become more dependent on imports of gasoline...
- Activists Stump For Safer Chemical Plants
- Greenpeace activists descended on Illinois, Ohio, Missouri...
- Atrazine Spikes Raise Concern
- EPA is underestimating the risks of the herbicide atrazine in drinking water because the agency ignores seasonal spikes in concentrations...
- EPA Plans To Repeal Hazardous Waste Rule
- EPA is planning to withdraw a controversial, industry-backed deregulation of hazardous waste instituted by the Bush Administration...
» more government & policy news...
Books

Shocking Developments pp. 31-32
How scientific discoveries in the Romantic era set diverging paths for faith and reason.
Science & Technology

Troublesome Drug Metabolites pp. 27-28 (Member Content)
ACS Meeting News: Toxicologists pool their knowledge to advance safety testing of drug candidates.
Seeing Inside Cells p. 29 (Member Content)
ACS Meeting News: Chemists use small molecules to fluorescently label proteins, RNAs, and glycans
Inside Instrumentation p. 30 (Member Content)
Technology and Business news for the laboratory world.
Science & Technology Concentrates pp. 25-26 (Member Content)
- Organocatalyst Passes Chirality Along
- Supramolecular catalyst could point the way to a powerful new strategy for finding novel organocatalysts.
- Nanotubes Sensors Detect NO
- Sensor could signal the presence of physiological NO in real time.
- Selective CO2 Sorption
- Framework compound adsorbs CO2 at low pressures.
- Programming Polymers With Solvent And Heat
- Stimuli-responsive polymer applications could be useful for chromatography and biosensing.
- Greater Selectivity Refines Treatment Of Cognitive Disorders
- Experimental compound targets specific receptor class involved in Alzheimer's disease.
- Odors Inhibit Fly CO2 Response
- Chemicals that modulate the insects' response to carbon dioxide could lead to new insect repellents.
- Chip-Based Dye Laser
- Microfluidic laser could be used for on-chip spectroscopy and flow cytometry.
- Titanic Inflammation In A Simulated Immune System
- Model system reveals immunogenicity of titanium dioxide nanoparticles used in sunscreen, implants, and cosmetics.
» more science & technology news...
Editor's Page
Bring Back OTA p. 3
The Departments
Letters pp. 4-5 (Member Content)
Newscripts p. 40
An Eye On Cancer, A Smiling Death
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