Posted on Sep 21, 2024

Hazardous chemicals in food packaging can also be found in people

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel

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Thousands of chemicals used in food packaging and food production are leaching into food itself.

“It’s [from] your soda can, your plastic cooking utensils, your nonstick frying pan, the cardboard box that your fries come in,” says Jane Muncke, a toxicologist based in Zurich. “It’s retail food packaging, but also the processing equipment, and your [kitchenware] and tableware at home.” LTC Eugene Chu Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Maj Kim Patterson Maj (Join to see) MAJ Ken Landgren CPT Gurinder (Gene) Rana Capt Gregory Prickett Capt Dwayne Conyers MSgt Steve Sweeney MSG Stan Hutchison MSgt Michael Bischoff 1SG (Join to see) SSgt Richard Kensinger SP5 Dennis Loberger PO1 Tony Holland PO1 Brian Austin CPL LaForest Gray SrA John Monette SPC Kevin Ford A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney

Hazardous chemicals in food packaging can also be found in people

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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen

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I've always found it ironic that things like vegetables are packaged because those with germ phobias are fearful. Then we get reports like this that infer that the packaging is more harmful than what it supposedly protects people from. What's so hard about washing unpackaged vegetables before consuming them?

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