This harmful chemical in food packaging was hidden from the FDA, the new report says
It is in pizza boxes, pickup containers and other food packaging.
Two chemical companies intentionally kept the dangers of atoxic Chemical found in the hidden food packaging of the FDA, in effect, exposing millions of Americans to the substance. And now, the organization works in the phase.
Several studies have connected 6: 2 of the FTOH, a chemical used in food packaging to combat fat, with potentially serious health problems such as kidney disease, liver damage, cancer, neurological damage, development problems and self-immune disorders, according toThe Guardian. But the chemical companies Dupont and Daikin have ignored and hid them, the report says, and continued to use 6: 2 of the FTOH in pizza boxes, transport containers, fast food packaging and Cardboard packaging.
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In 2008, Dupont and the FDA determined that the exposure of Humans to 6: 2 of the FTOH would not result in its accumulation in the body. The FDA then approved it to use in 2009.
Dupont and Daikin did not disclose or publish studies completed in 2009 and 2012 about the toxicology of chemistry, rather say the FDA they were safer than the PFAs or "chemicals forever" which does not are not decomposed in the body and accumulate in time, by theEnvironmental Protection Agency.
In 2015, the FDA discovered the studies after Maricel Maffini, independent researcher and Tom Neltner, director of chemical policy with the Fund of the Environment,DISTRIBUTIONS While analyzing the other published on the FDA website.
FDA has since inked agreements with some manufacturersWhen eliminating test 6: 2 of the 2025 FTOHBut Maffini and Neltner say that it does not do enough to do public safety.
"I think people must be able to count on the FDA to transform science to the agency into real acts and, at the moment, it does not seem to be the case," said NeltnerThe Guardian.
This is not the first case involving prejudicial additions to the foods you eat in this year's light:
- This great Mac and Fromales brand is continued for toxins related to asthma and obesity
- 90% of this fruit contains harmful toxins, the new report finds
- Wendy's internal these harmful chemicals of its products
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