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  1. It sort of bewilders me that companies are releasing products based on these materials without having asked and answered basic questions - certainly issues identified with conventional plastics offered at least a partial roadmap of specific things to consider (nano/microparticle, environmental fate in various environments, impact of metabolites, behavior in digestive systems, etc.) And I see too many products preying on consumers, capitalizing on confusion of "biodegradable" vs "compostable" - in fact, I fear many making the consumer products from these materials don't fully understand the issues.

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #plasticpollution #MisleadingClaims #RegulatoryFailure - All courtesy of the lobbyists paid by #BigPlastic - which includes consumer products companies like Pepsi and Coke and Nestle and Danone and all those other companies helping you ingest plastics.

  2. Experts call for clampdowns on exploitative formula milk marketing in new Lancet series
    #FormulaMilk
    #Marketing
    #TheLancet
    #WHO
    #Breastfeeding
    #Nestle
    #MisleadingClaims
    #PoliticalInterference who.int/news/item/08-02-2023-e
    >The formula milk industry’s marketing tactics are exploitative and urgent clampdowns are needed to tackle misleading claims and political interference, according to a new three-paper series published in The Lancet today.