Posted on 01/12/2024 11:15:31 AM PST by bitt
Of 85 products tested, a popular organic pasta product had the highest levels
These chemicals have been linked to cancer and other serious health conditions
READ MORE: Average water bottle contains 240k pieces of nanoplastics
'Forever chemicals' linked to cancer are found in virtually every food product sold in American stores, a shocking report suggests.
The watchdog Consumer Reports tested 85 everyday items for the presence of phthalates and bisphenols, two types of PFAS chemicals used to make plastics.
The researchers tried to make their sample size as broad as possible - testing water, soda, cereal, bread, meat, fish, condiments, desserts and even baby food.
All but one product tested positive for the substances, which have been dubbed 'forever chemicals' because they are virtually impossible to break down in the body where they cause untold health problems.
It comes amid growing fears about the massive amounts of chemicals being ingested by Americans every year - and whether it is related to a mystery spike in cancers among young people.
A study earlier this week found water bottles contain a quarter of a million pieces of microscopic plastics.
In the latest report, Consumer Reports measured the amount of phthalates - a group of chemicals used to make plastics more durable - in products in nanograms, which indicates a mass equal to one billionth of a gram.
The product with the highest amount of phthalates per serving in nanograms was Annie's canned organic cheesy ravioli, which contained 53,580 nanograms of phthalates per serving.
It is not clear how much of these get broken down by the body or released naturally during the digestive process. But the CDC says that between 2 and 20 nanograms per milliliter of blood can cause people adverse health problems.
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Next, check the fine print below the ingredients in your regular Vanilla CoffeeMate.
(It now contains Bio-engineered substances...)
Pick up any item on the center aisle of a grocery store and then read the ingredients. Next, convince me all the chemicals can be good for me.
Note to self: Throw away all the cans of Annie’s organic cheesy ravioli.
Rather than “real” food, how about “unprocessed food” like fruit, vegetables, meat, etc. No one knows what all the added chemicals in packaged food are doing to the human body.
Here’s a great site that goes into detail about these chemicals. The people who run the site have connection with a lab, they have all kinds of foods and other products tested for these “forever” chemicals. They add content as they test more items. people should not be put off by the word “Eco” which I also dislike. This is a very informative and useful site.
It makes sense to avoid toxic chemicals as much as one reasonably can. For decades I have bought only ingredients, very rarely “store bought” food. I will re-considerbuying pasta. One option for pasta is using pasta made in Italy.
ECO-WELLNESS PRODUCT INVESTIGATIONS FOR MOMS
If it’s toxic, we’ll find it, and put it on the naughty list!
Ditto...
Soy, highly genetically modified, loaded with glyphosate (Roundup), contains endocrine disrupters, and its in more and more alleged foods.
When you see "processed", think "soy".
And soybeans contain estrogen-like compounds that can alter your body’s hormone balance, man or woman.................
Turns the frogs gay.
Not to mention gender dystopia.
Dec. 14, 2020 9:23 a.m. EST...
It really doesn’t matter whether you garden your own food, raise organic food for sale or farm using petrochemicals.
The microplastics blow onto your soil and there’s not much you can do. Then can enter into plant/animals and become lodged in there.
Since the vast majority of microplastics, phthalates and the like come from packaging materials we need to change how we package items for sale.
For instance changing polycarbonates used in bottles for nylons and limonene polycarbonate (which can be broken down by soil bacteria).
My packaging professor did research on degradable packaging materials. He said plastic pollution is a much more pressing issue than climate change.
But companies don’t want to change, even if it adds a hundredth of a cent onto final cost.
Listen.
Do you hear crickets?
For kids this means early menarche in girls (and other issues in adulthood) and (potentially) moobs for boys. One wonders if this might have an effect on sexual confusion in boys.
The can is lined with a polyester coat most likely.
Glass is an absolute barrier material and does not corrode, making it a better choice for canned goods.
Manufacturers don’t like glass because it is more expensive and heavy. Weight raises transport costs.
That’s why I can in glass..
Now doing much more freeze drying and storing in glass with oxygen absorbers. Zero preservatives.
EEEK! Not only that the water in most places has been found to be contaminated with dihydrogenmonoxide.
In 1946, DuPont introduced nonstick cookware coated with Teflon. Today the family of fluorinated chemicals that sprang from Teflon includes thousands of nonstick, stain-repellent and waterproof compounds called PFAS, short for per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances.Then it said that nanoplastics were found in water bottles. The didn't claim that the sky was falling so at least that was a blessing.
The researchers tried to make their sample size as broad as possible - testing water, soda, cereal, bread, meat, fish, condiments, desserts and even baby food.The better to scare you with my dear.
I guess we’re all plastered. That explains a lot.
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