Nearly 200 potential mammary carcinogens found in food contact materials. These hazardous chemicals — including PFAS, bisphenols and phthalates — can migrate from packaging into food, and thus be ingested by people
https://ecancer.org/en/news/25365-nearly-200-potential-mammary-carcinogens-found-in-food-contact-materials-new-study-highlights-regulatory-shortcomings
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Researchers from the Food Packaging Forum identify and discuss nearly 200 potential breast carcinogens that have been detected in food contact materials (FCMs) on the market.
Many nations have food contact material legislation intended to protect citizens from hazardous chemicals, often specifically by regulating genotoxic carcinogens.
As cancer is one of the few health endpoints specifically targeted in FCM regulations and testing, carcinogenic chemicals in food packaging and other food contact materials and articles should not be commonplace.
“This study is important because it shows that there is a huge opportunity for prevention of human exposure to breast cancer-causing chemicals,” said Jane Muncke, Managing Director of the Food Packaging Forum and co-author of the study.
“The potential for cancer prevention by reducing hazardous chemicals in your daily life is underexplored and deserves much more attention.”
By comparing a recently published list of potential breast carcinogens developed by scientists at the Silent Spring Institute with the Food Packaging Forum’s own Database on migrating and extractable food contact chemicals ( FCCmigex ), the authors find that 189 potential breast carcinogens have been detected in FCMs, including 143 in plastics and 89 in paper or board.
“Identifying the presence of these hazardous chemicals in food contact materials was possible thanks to our FCCmigex Database,” said Lindsey Parkinson, Data Scientist and Scientific Editor at the Food Packaging Forum and lead author of the study.
“This resource brings valuable information from thousands of published scientific studies on chemicals in food contact materials together into a single and easily explorable place.”
[https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/toxicology/articles/10.3389/ftox.2024.1440331/full](https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/toxicology/articles/10.3389/ftox.2024.1440331/full)
Will they make your penis smaller or less hard? That’s the only way this gets fixed.
“We found harmful chemical [X] in common item [Y]” is an ***utterly meaningless*** statement if you do not specify both the amounts detected, and the threshold at which they’re considered a health concern.
I see neither in this article.
With sensitive enough analysis techniques, you can detect just about anything anywhere. And modern day analytical chemistry can be ***incredibly*** sensitive!
This is just bad journalism based on a questionable paper published in a known predatory journal.
I like how they mention it’s a huge opportunity for us to “reduce harmful chemicals in your daily life” for us individually to help prevent breast cancer, but not how corporations need to be held responsible and these chemicals removed from production. Basically if you end up with breast cancer from these carcinogens knowingly introduced into your foods, that’s a shame, should have tried harder to avoid them.
Remember when the hippies were against plastics?
I’m willing to bet these chemicals are not used in europe
Don’t forget the processing plants. All those foods are processed in containers laced with these chemicals, as is the tubing the liquids flow through when processing and filling yogurt cups, etc. – it’s what makes them easier to clean. So the food has been exposed regardless of the type of packaging before it even makes it into the container.
I remember in some of the toxicity lectures I have attended, it was discussed that the cut off point whereby there is endocrine disruption is often much lower than the allowable amounts.
I worry that the additive effects of even low levels of endocrine disrupting chemicals, which is the “ cocktail” or stew of multiple toxins, will cause increasing negative effects on our health.
So we’re arresting company executives for miss-carriages right? Right?