More than 3,000 chemicals from food packaging have infiltrated our bodies, a new study has found.

A new study details the chemicals finding their way into human bodies from contact with food.

  • jpreston2005@lemmy.world
    16·
    2 months ago

    wow. the fact that they’re finding these chemicals in Placental and Amniotic fluid is nuts

    And then the chemicals themselves are just… a list of some very nasty things

    I’m reminded of the Propublica article that blew the lid off the fact that 3M’s PFAS accumulates in our tissues and causes cancer.

    At the time, Johnson said, he didn’t think PFOS caused significant health problems. Still, he told me, “it was obviously bad,” because man-made compounds from household products didn’t belong in the human body. He said that he argued against using fluorochemicals in toothpaste and diapers. (…) “These idiots were already putting it in food packaging,” he said.

    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

      Are you rich enough to only use glass containers and do all of your food shopping locally at farmers’ markets? Because if not… stop drinking beverages out of plastic bottles. I’m in the same boat.

      • Professorozone@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        But it arrives in plastic. Ok, theoretically I could drink straight from the tap, which in my house uses copper lines, but my water tastes like ass. So I either filter it or buy gallon jugs. Both are plastic.

        Also glass containers need lids and those are usually plastic.

  • kevindqc@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    Started using factor meals, pre-cooked meals that you reheat in the microwave/oven in their plastic containers. I guess I will start transferring the food into something else to reheat it 😬