Toxic Fast Food Wrappers

Toxic Packaging: Are Fast Food Wrappers Hurting Your Family?

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Perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) are a large group of man-made chemicals that have been used in industry and consumer products worldwide since the 1950s. Learn about sources of exposure to PFCs, health effects, and PFC-related sites that ATSDR has been involved in.

Bread is a family staple for school lunches, summer picnics, barbecues, and warm weather meals, and is often promoted as the best source for fiber. Although these products can fill up your family’s hungry bellies, they are also full of unhealthy additives and chemicals that you may want to avoid. Just as we did for breakfast cereal and peanut butter, we’ll take a look at some of those ingredients, whether they are truly unhealthy or controversial, and help you make cleaner choices for your family.

Mmmm…bacon. Sounds good, doesn’t? I bet you’re thinking about some crispy, crumbly bacon atop, well anything really. But what if I told you that BACON IS EVIL?! Okay, it’s not evil, but there’s scientific evidence to suggest that mystery meats are not as good for you as you wish they were.

Migration of Perfluorochemicals From Food Contact Materials

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Perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) are a large group of man-made chemicals that have been used in industry and consumer products worldwide since the 1950s. Learn about sources of exposure to PFCs, health effects, and PFC-related sites that ATSDR has been involved in.

According to a report, researchers found fluorinated chemicals in one-third of the fast food packaging they tested.

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We tested samples of paper wrappers and paperboard packaging from 27 fast food chains throughout the United States. The samples were collected in 2014 and 2015. The findings provide a snapshot of the market, which shows that fast food packaging containing fluorinated chemicals is widely available in the U.S.