PhD scholarship in Chemical Characterization Guided Effect-Directed Analysis of Food Packaging materials - DTU Food

Opportunity summary

Official occupation: ph.d., naturvidenskab og teknik. Employment conditions: Almindelige vilkår. Employer CVR: 30060946. Primary career market: Public Sector, Education & Impact (employer-sector evidence). Are you interested in food safety, human health, and how analytical chemistry and toxicology can be combined to improve the chemical safety assessment of food packaging materials? Do you want to work at the interface of analytical chemistry, computational toxicology, and cell-based models to address challenges in the chemical safety assessment of novel food packaging materials? We are offering a PhD position at the Technical University of Denmark focusing on the chemical safety assessment of novel food packaging materials. The project is funded by the DTU National Food Institute. The food packaging landscape is changing rapidly, with traditional plastics increasingly being replaced by novel “non plastic” alternatives derived from diverse feedstocks, ranging from industrial side streams to seaweed. While these materials are often promoted as more sustainable solutions, their chemical safety is often insufficiently characterized. Assessing their chemical safety using conventional risk assessment approaches is challenging, particularly because complex mixtures of intentionally and non-intentionally added substances may be present1 …

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