Review
Open access
Sep 2026
Bioplastics: Food-Safe or Greenwashed? Safety, Regulation, and Emerging Technologies
Bioplastics are increasingly deployed across the food contact material (FCM) sector as a direct substitute for fossil-derived polymers, resting on the implicit premise that a renewable feedstock inherently confers biological safety. This review examines that premise. We separate two risk domains routinely conflated in...
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