Company Receives Grant to Develop Plastics Free of Potentially Unsafe Chemicals
Published: 28 October 2009
Category: Bisphenol A (BPA), Packaging CONCERNS, Studies/State & Federal Regulations
According to the “Austin American Statesman,” Austin-based PlastiPure Inc., a company working to end the use of potentially unsafe chemicals in plastic bottles, has received $1.1 million in federal money to further its research. PlastiPure Inc. will use the grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to continue developing plastics and other materials that are free of chemicals that have been linked to health problems, such as bisphenol A (BPA). The company was founded in 2000 by University of Texas neurobiology professor George Bittner.