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The FDA said PFAS — once commonly found in a range of products, including pizza boxes, fast-food wrappers and microwave popcorn bags — are no longer used in food packaging.
Food packaging like burger wrappers and take-out containers have long contained forever chemicals. The FDA says it's stopping that. (Getty Creative) (Daniel Lozano Gonzalez via Getty Images)
Movie nights call for popcorn, and in my house that means anything from a bag of Pirate’s Booty to a giant bowl of homemade stove-top popcorn bathed in butter. But there’s one type of popcorn ...
Microwave popcorn is a convenience food consisting of unpopped popcorn in an enhanced, sealed paper bag intended to be heated in a microwave oven. In addition to the dried corn, the bags typically contain cooking oil with sufficient saturated fat to solidify at room temperature, one or more seasonings (often salt ), and natural or artificial ...
In a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) study, lipophobic fluorotelomer-based paper coatings (which can be applied to food contact paper in the concentration range of 0.4%) were found to contain 88,000–160,000 parts per billion PFOA before application, while the oil from microwave popcorn bags contained 6–290 parts per billion PFOA ...
The FDA’s food studies have shown that food packaging materials like fast-food wrappers, microwave popcorn bags and take-out pizza boxes were a major source of dietary exposure to certain types ...
PFAS were commonly found in fast-food wrapping, microwave popcorn bags, takeout containers and pet food packaging.
This includes things like food wrappers as well as microwavable popcorn bags, takeout containers and pet food bags. “This is a very good and important development but not enough,” says Muncke.