{"id":195,"date":"2015-09-22T22:10:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T22:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/?p=195"},"modified":"2015-09-23T19:01:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T19:01:44","slug":"scbna-and-smith-fellows-statement-on-danger-of-microbeads-helps-in-passage-of-law-banning-their-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/policy\/scbna-and-smith-fellows-statement-on-danger-of-microbeads-helps-in-passage-of-law-banning-their-use\/","title":{"rendered":"SCBNA and Smith Fellows statement on danger of microbeads helps in passage of law banning their use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/conbio.org\/images\/content_policy\/03.24.15_Microbead_Brief_Statement.pdf\">policy statement<\/a>\u00a0written by SCB&#8217;s Smith Fellows, and endorsed by SCB North America, on the risks that microbeads (plastic particles\u00a0commonly found in cosmetics) pose to biota and the environment, has helped achieve passage of a <a href=\"http:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB888\">bill<\/a>\u00a0(AB888) restricting use of microbeads in California. \u00a0More on the story <a href=\"http:\/\/huff.to\/1ifT93c\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent policy statement\u00a0written by SCB&#8217;s Smith Fellows, and endorsed by SCB North America, on the risks that microbeads (plastic particles\u00a0commonly found in cosmetics) pose to biota and the environment, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbnorthamerica.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}