Judul: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) kemasan botol pet (polyethylena terephtalate) dan botol gelas
Abstrak: The food products needs packaging to keep its quality and extending its life time. One of favorite food products is tea beverage. Recently, there are a lot of variants of the beverage in our community. Packaging development supported by the growth of the tea beverage variants. At the first timem , glass bottle is used as the packaging of tea beverage, however it is transformed into PET (Polyethylena terephtalate) bottle. The developing of packaging technology for glass bottle to PET bottle is very usefull. It becomes more comfort to bring the tea beverage, aesier to be placed, and kept. But, partly people consider the packaging of products is no value compare to the product.
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Judul: Assessment of Compliance with Indonesian Ecolabeling Regulations: Case Study in Beverage Products with Semi-Rigid Plastic Packaging
Abstrak: Indonesia is one of the world’s leading producers of plastic trash and plastic marine pollution. It is estimated that beverage product contributed 971,000 metric tonnes of plastic with just a small percentage of it being recycled. Companies play an important role in introducing an environmentally friendly product to the market. To provide the consumer confidence that the environmentally product is correctly implemented, the Ministry of Forestry and Environment enacted the Ministry of Forestry and Environment Law Number 2 of 2014 about ecolabel. This study attempts to examine and evaluate the compliance of beverage companies in Indonesia with relation to the addition of the ecolabelling logo on the packaging. To achieve this, this study used a survey of several food industry practitioner from beverage companies, as well as field observation of the product. The result shows that although the food industry practitioner is aware and knowledgeable about ecolabel, the implementation is still concerningly low, with only 1 product with compliant ecolabel amongst 109 products. The cause of the low implementation could be due to its difficulty in terms of requirements, cost and supporting policies that enforces or encourage the industry to comply it. Therefore, additional research and discussions between stakeholders must be conducted to assess the challenges and overcome this issue.
Keyword: Ecolabel regulation, Beverage Industry, Plastic Waste, Plastic Packaging, Ecolabe

Judul: Seroprevalence of Chikungunya and The Risk of Transmission Transmitted Among Blood Donors In Sulawesi-Indonesia
Abstrak: Chikungunya (CHIK) is an arthritogenic alphavirus in the Togaviridae family of arboviruses with an enveloped RNA containing a positive single-stranded 11.8 kb genome. Transmission occurs through the bite of infected Aedes mosquitoes, which are commonly found in tropical and temperate regions. Primary vertebrate hosts include monkeys and humans, in whom this virus replicates efficiently (Diallo et al. 1999). Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is known for causing acute illness, manifesting with fever, rash, and arthralgia known as Chikungunya fever (Horwood dan Buchy 2015). Despite the high number of Chikungunya cases in Indonesia, comprehensive data are lacking in CHIKV seroprevalence. Previous studies reported the median seroprevalence of anti-CHIKV antibodies in all situations 18.5%, ranging from 0.0 – 73.% (Harapan et al., 2019). However, the gap in epidemiological data of CHIKV in many regions of Indonesia including Sulawesi, is noteworthy. The objective of this study was to determine the seroprevalence of CHIKV infection among healthy individuals from North and South Sulawesi using archive samples. Additionally, an asymptomatic course of CHIKV infection and the high pre-symptomatic viral load as 108pfu/mL (Appassakij et al. 2013) suggest that the infection can threaten blood transfusion safety. Evidence of CHIKV infection among blood donors (Simmons et al. 2016) indicates transfusion-transmitted is probable, although it has not been documented (Petersen dan Epstein 2014). Our study also aimed to test the archive blood donor specimens from North Sulawesi for CHIKV IgM and viremia to determine blood safety in endemic areas. Samples were screened for anti-CHIKV IgG antibodies to determine exposure to CHIKV using an in-house IgG ELISA as previously described (Kosasih et al. 2013) with minor modifications. CHIKV IgM, a marker for recent infection and endemicity, was tested in 303 samples randomly selected from IgG-positive samples using a Euroimmun anti-CHIKV IgM ELISA kit (Luebeck, Germany) following the manufacturer’s instructions. CHIKV RNA detection was carried out using one-step-qRT-PCR. The data generated were analyzed with IBM-SPSS v20 (IBM Corporation, USA). Chi-square (χ2) test to determine significant differences between categorical variables, and a p-value less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. As many as 1092 serum and plasma samples were analyzed, with CHIK IgG seropositivity at 53.48% (584/1092). The results also show a statistically significant difference in the seropositive rates based on gender (58.8% male and 48.5% female) and region (53.9% South Sulawesi versus 48.7% North Sulawesi). Seropositivity increased with age; approximately half of adults between their 40s and 60s had seroconverted. Most of the participants, 304 (27.8%), were between 21-30 years. The age groups with the least participants were those >60 years and <20 years, with 93 participants each (8.5%), followed by the 51–60-years age group with 142 (13.0%) participants. In addition to IgG, the overall anti-CHIKV IgM seropositivity comprised 12.9% (39/303). A Chi-square analysis shows a statistical significance of anti-CHIKV IgM seropositivity based on gender and region with p-values (p=0.047 and p=0.038, respectively). On the contrary, there was no significant difference in anti-CHIK IgM based on age. The age group with the most participants was the 21-30 years with 19.3% (16/83), while those with the least participants were those >60 years. The current study
Keyword: Chikungunya, Serosurvey, Sulawesi, Blood donors, ELISA, qRT-PCR.