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Consumer Reports recently tested 85 grocery and fast-food items for plastic chemicals that have been linked to health issues in humans. The nonprofit watchdog organization ended up discovering the ...
· Try to avoid eating anything that has been stored in a plastic container. Look for food stored in glass, enamel or foil. · Wear clothing made from natural fabrics and buy consumer products ...
Researchers have identified nearly 200 chemicals used to make food packaging that could possibly increase the risk of breast cancer.. Found in plastics and paper, some of the potential mammary ...
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 ...
Food containers and cookware are leaching more potentially hazardous chemicals into our bodies than previously thought, new research suggests.
Humans are exposed to toxic chemicals and microplastics at all stages in the plastics life cycle. Microplastics effects on human health are of growing concern and an area of research. The tiny particles known as microplastics (MPs), have been found in various environmental and biological matrices, including air, water, food, and human tissues.
An "incident" of chemical food contamination may be defined as an episodic occurrence of adverse health effects in humans (or animals that might be consumed by humans) following high exposure to particular chemicals, or instances where episodically high concentrations of chemical hazards were detected in the food chain and traced back to a particular event.
Another chemical Consumer Reports watched for is bisphenol, or BPA. It detected this in 79% of its samples, but that rate is much lower than in its last BPA research in 2009, which suggests at ...