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“Food manufacturers have a responsibility to ensure that their products are free of hazardous levels of toxic plastic chemicals,” Avonna Starck, the state director of Clean Water Action, added.
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 ...
Food containers and cookware are leaching more potentially hazardous chemicals into our bodies than previously thought, new research suggests. Food packaging chemicals are seeping into human ...
FDA officially decided to ban three kinds of perfluoroalkyl ethyls, a class of exceptionally common chemicals used in water-and grease-proof pizza boxes. Turns out pizza-delivery boxes might ...
Plastic containers and packaging can be found in plastic bottles, supermarket bags, milk and water jugs, and more. EPA used data from the American Chemistry Council to estimate that 14.7 million tons (5.5 percent of MSW generation) of plastic containers and packaging were created in 2015. [ 5 ]
The researchers also suggest that the plastic chemical exposure itself may lead to heart muscle damage, along with inflammation and oxidative stress, an imbalance of free radicals and antioxidants ...
Disposable tableware was a key part of the business strategy of chain fast food restaurants in the US. In order for the business model to work, fast food chains, notably McDonald's, had to convince consumers [10] through advertising campaigns to carry their own tableware to a waste bins, in order to avoid labor expenses incurred in clearing ...
According to the directive, there is a ban on plastic cotton buds and balloon sticks, plastic plates, cutlery, stirrers and straws, Styrofoam drinks and food packaging (e.g. disposable cups and one-person meals), products made of oxo-degradable plastic, which degrade into microplastics, while cigarette filters, drinking cups, wet wipes ...