Report Flags Thousands of Food Packaging Chemicals for Replacement

Your food may be safe. Its packaging is another story.

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Most people decide if it’s safe to eat an old tub of yogurt in the fridge or canned tuna in the back of the cupboard by checking its sell-by date. But no label indicates that […]

Food packaging chemicals lack safety data, scientists propose a solution

Every day, consumers around the world unwrap their food from packaging, cook in nonstick pans, sip from plastic bottles, and microwave leftovers in containers whose chemical composition remains, in large part, a mystery to science. A new peer-reviewed study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology has revealed the staggering scale of this knowledge […]

Report flags thousands of food packaging chemicals for replacement

A new study groups food contact chemicals by structure, which may help policymakers more efficiently regulate them, the lead author says.