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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)
Photos: Pipcorn, Lesser Evil, Skinny Pop. Design: Eat This, Not That!Popcorn is one of the most popular snacks on the market, and you've likely enjoyed it as a movie theater treat or at home ...
Teflon was originally created in 1945, and soon found its way into products including stain-resistant carpets, carpet-cleaning liquids, microwave popcorn bags, outdoor furniture, baking pans, and frying pans. 3M originally created the PFOA compound, the key substance in Teflon, before selling it to DuPont. Despite a memorandum from 3M to ...
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.
Diacetyl is a chemical used to produce the artificial butter flavoring [25] in many foods such as candy and microwave popcorn and occurring naturally in wines. This first came to public attention when eight former employees of the Gilster-Mary Lee popcorn plant in Jasper, Missouri developed bronchiolitis obliterans. Due to this event ...
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 ...
SEE MORE: Study finds 'forever chemicals' increase risk of thyroid cancer Following a market-wide safety assessment of PFAS packaging, the FDA in 2020 asked manufacturers to end the sale of ...