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2014 May 29 - New bio-based bisphenol substitutes

2014 May 29 - New bio-based bisphenol substitutes

Use of bisphenols, which are part of many packaging polymers in contact with food and beverage, will be soon prohibited, but bio-based substitute molecules seem promising.

Researchers from Inra and AgroParisTech have set up a bio-catalyzed method to build from plant biomass an array of molecules that can substitute bisphenol A and whose properties can be modulated. UMR FARE actively participates to this study, in particular through the PhD work of Stéphanie Dupoiron mentored by Pr Caroline Rémond to create new polyphenolic oligomers based on ferulic acid, in collaboration with the AgroParisTech Industrial Agro-Biotechnology chair whose Director Florent Allais is interviewed by the National French radio France Inter.

Contact: Pr Caroline Rémond, caroline.remond@univ-reims.fr

29 May 2014

Modification date : 06 June 2023 | Publication date : 27 May 2014 | Redactor : G. Paës