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For the study, researchers looked at 14,000 chemicals that come into contact with food during the packaging process and compared that to worldwide databases on human exposure to potential chemical ...
Thousands of potentially toxic plastic chemicals can migrate from food processing and packaging into the human body, a new study found.
Of the 189 chemicals they identified, there is hard evidence than 76 are transferring into food from the packaging, and 68 chemicals have been detected in people.. But, the chemicals are not just ...
The international Radura logo, used to show a food has been treated with ionizing radiation. A portable, trailer-mounted food irradiation machine, c. 1968 Food irradiation (sometimes American English: radurization; British English: radurisation) is the process of exposing food and food packaging to ionizing radiation, such as from gamma rays, x-rays, or electron beams.
Human exposure to chemicals, including forever chemicals or PFAS, from food packaging is widespread, according to the study. Experts call it "concerning." Chemicals leaching from food packaging ...
The most well known use of polyvinylidene chloride came in 1953, when Saran Wrap, a plastic food wrap, was introduced. In 2004, however, the formula was changed to low-density polyethylene due to environmental concerns about its chlorine content and other disadvantages .
22 May 2017 According to a 2 November 2018, Bloomberg article, the Minnesota Health Department (MHD) notified the office of the Mayor of Cottage Grove, Myron Bailey, that the MHD had "set a new, [stricter], lower level for a type of unregulated chemical found in Minnesota's drinking water" and that Cottage Grove's water "would exceed the new ...
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)