Mastodawn

ConscienHealth Sep 21, 2024

Researchers inventoried a total of 14,000 chemicals in contact with food from packaging and found evidence for 3,601 of them being measurably present in human bodies. Some of these are #EndocrineDisruptingChemicals, contributing to #obesity.
https://conscienhealth.org/2024/09/14000-chemicals-in-food-packaging-3601-enter-our-bodies/

14,000 Chemicals in Food Packaging, 3,601 Enter Our Bodies - ConscienHealth

Of 14,000 chemicals in contact with food from packaging, researchers found evidence for 3,601 of them being measurably present in our bodies.

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John Englart Mar 18, 2024

Plastic food packaging contains harmful endocrine disrupting chemicals, new study confirms.

36 #foodPackaging materials tested from 5 countries: 33 of them (92%) contained chemicals that interfere with hormone receptors crucial to #humanHealth.

https://www.ehn.org/harmful-chemicals-in-plastic-packaging-2667506288.html

Fossil fuel petrochemical companies want to expand virgin plastics use as we move off #fossilFuels for energy, fuel

#PlasticsCrisis #endocrinedisruptingchemicals #foodpackaging

Plastic food packaging contains harmful endocrine disrupting chemicals

Many plastic food contact materials - plastics that are used in the processing and packaging of food - contain toxic chemicals that disrupt the endocrine system and metabolism, according to a new study published in Environmental Science & Technology. In short:The authors tested 36 food packaging mat...

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Catherine Jun 27, 2023

What struck me most about this story is how reluctant scientists were to conclude that exposure to #plastics lowers sperm counts. There seems to be a real cognitive bias in favour of non-correlation.

#EDCs #EndocrineDisruptingChemicals
#infertility

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