Scientists have no doubts, the situation is not good and it is high time to take a closer look at how and in what food is packaged. As a new study shows, human organisms can be found over 3,600 chemicals used in food preparation and packaging. Some of them are hazardous to health, and we don’t know much about others, so we can also assume their potential harmfulness.
According to Birgit Geueke, lead author of the study from the Swiss non-governmental organization Food Packaging Forum Foundation, About 100 of these chemicals are considered to pose a “high risk” to human health. Some are relatively well-studied and have been detected in humans before, such as PFAS and bisphenol A (both of which are subject to bans in many countries).
However, little is known about the health effects of others, which experts say is an obvious call for further research. on how packaging chemicals enter the human body through food. Scientists have previously catalogued about 14,000 such food-contact chemicals that can “migrate” into food from packaging made of plastic, paper, glass, metal or other materials (they can also come from other parts of the food production process, such as conveyor belts or kitchen utensils).
Source: geekweek.interia.pl
