Research provides a unique review of contact chemicals in packaging, utensils, plates, etc and how they contaminate food
Recycled and reused food contact plastics are “vectors for spreading chemicals of concern” because they accumulate and release hundreds of dangerous toxins like styrene, benzene, bisphenol, heavy metals, formaldehyde and phthalates, newThe study assessed hundreds of scientific publications on plastic and recycled plastic to provide a first-of-its-kind systematic review of food contact chemicals in food packaging, utensils, plates and other items and what is known about how the substances...
Though some types of the material can be recycled, most cannot, and the study highlights how improving recyclability of the material comes with risks: it identified 853 chemicals used in PET recycled plastic and many of those have been discovered during the last two years. Moreover, the chemistries of plastics can be something of a black box. In the US, there’s very little regulation around what goes in the material and the EU only requires light testing to determine which chemicals are in plastic.
“It’s not safe, and as the quality of recycled plastic decreases, the amount of potential contaminants goes up,” said Birgit Geueke, the study’s lead author and senior scientific officer with the Zurich-based Food Packaging Forum.
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