Friday, Feb. 21, 2025 | 2 a.m.
I’m amazed {that a} medical pupil can transfer right here from Los Angeles, enroll at UNLV’s campus, and instantly be part of forces with Dina Neal to alter state legislation, affecting tons of of hundreds of individuals primarily based on a dialog he had with “round” 12 restaurant house owners within the entirety of the Las Vegas Valley (“UNLV medical pupil pushes for ban on plastic reducing boards in eating places,” Feb. 16).
I’m equally amazed, and disillusioned, that mentioned legislator would bounce proper on board, costing companies cash that might be handed on to shoppers in a time of already-high costs.
Wood reducing boards, the coed’s proposed various, assist unfold micro organism due to all of the nooks and crannies in them, significantly when not maintained. And as somebody within the trade, I’ll inform you they won’t be maintained.
The Meals and Drug Administration is quoted within the Feb. 16 story saying, “the scientific proof doesn’t show that ranges of microplastics or nanoplastics present in meals pose a threat to human well being.” It additionally mentioned the research the coed cites “used strategies of variable, questionable and/or restricted accuracy and specificity.”
It feels like Neal and the coed are saying rattling the science, full velocity forward. Is that this probably the most urgent challenge Neal can consider throughout these instances?
