BACKGROUND, AIM, AND SCOPE Food consumption is an important route of human exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals. So far, this has been demonstrated by exposure modeling or analytical identification of single substances in foodstuff (e.g., phthalates) and human body fluids (e.g., urine and blood). Since the research in this field is focused on few chemicals (and thus missing mixture effect...

The usage of plastic materials in our daily life is increasing day by day. These are somehow beneficial for us, but the disposal waste has become a serious problem. use not only enhances road construction also helps extend roads and improves environment. Waste plastics increases durability reduces water retention. This research reviews asphalt pavement. In this study, properties such as Marshal...

BACKGROUND Eye injuries and subsequent loss of vision from the glass and caps of exploding pressurized bottled drinks have been well reported, and as a result most developed countries now use mainly plastic bottles. In Nigeria, however, most drinks are still sold in glass bottles and ocular injuries from this source are therefore not uncommon. AIM To retrospectively analyze ocular injuries re...

The types of packages and containers in circulation are extremely wide-ranging: glass bottles, aluminum cans, detergent containers, gift-wraps, food packaging films and so forth. According to the statistics for 2007, total expenditure on packages and containers reached 6.2 trillion yen 1). The theme of this article, extrusion lamination processing, plays an important role in manufacturing paper...