The Vireo Advisors blog brings you the latest news and developments in safe, sustainable and bio-based materials and products including novel foods and sustainable nanomaterials.

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Metal Exposure from E-cigarettes

Researchers are using studies such as this review of data from 24 studies (which examined the blood and urine samples of e-cigarette users to show that e-cigarettes are a source of exposure to a long list of metals, including lead and arsenic) to estimate metal exposure of e-cigarette users.

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Vireo Advisors, LLC and Baylor University Demonstrate Food Safety of Fibrillated Cellulose using Alternative Testing Strategy

Vireo Advisors, in collaboration with Baylor University, recently published an article “Physical, chemical, and toxicological characterization of fibrillated forms of cellulose using an in vitro gastrointestinal digestion and co-culture model” in Toxicology Research.

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