SciPinion Plastics Center of Excellence
Advancing scientific understanding in plastics research through collaborative expertise and objective peer review across the entire plastic lifecycle.
Advancing scientific understanding in plastics research through collaborative expertise and objective peer review across the entire plastic lifecycle.
SciPinion Centers of Excellence bring together the community of scientists from around the globe to create a unique, responsive and objective resource to address pressing scientific questions within a particular focus area. These centers enable industry, governments, and civil society to bring forward novel questions, complex topics, and time- sensitive inquiries for peer review, scientific assessments, and scoring to determine the credibility, veracity, and reliability of scientific data and opinions. SciPinion Centers of Excellence serve as the definitive voice on the critical science questions facing a particular sector of the economy and society.
A SciPinion panel identified substantial methodological flaws with a publication that proposed that water-soluble film composed of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA or PVOH) used in unit-dose laundry products (laundry pods or capsules) is not completely degraded in wastewater treatment plants. Read more here.
1,3-Butadiene (BD) is an important industrial chemical used as a building block precursor for synthetic rubber materials including tires, hoses, gaskets, and other polymer products. While BD serves critical industrial functions, questions have persisted about potential human health risks from environmental and occupational exposures, particularly regarding cancer and noncancer effects. Read more here.
SciPinion conducted an independent review of a publication proposing that water-soluble film composed of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA or PVOH) used in unit-dose laundry products (laundry pods or capsules) is not completely degraded in wastewater treatment plants.The expert panel identified substantial methodological flaws in the original publication. Read more here.
An international panel of experts reviewed the cancer weight of evidence (WOE) and mode of action (MOA) information for three lower acrylates (methyl, ethyl, and 2-ethylhexyl), coming to a contrary finding to IARC’s recent conclusion. Read more here.