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Are Forever Chemicals Leaching Into Your Food?
You’re doing all the right things to stay healthy, but if you’re still eating food from plastic containers, you’re likely getting a gravy of forever chemicals you didn’t bargain for.
Plastic containers made with PFAS are no longer manufactured in the U.S. due to their potential to leach dangerous toxins into your food, water, and personal care products. But Inhance Technologies, whose slogan is The Science of Better, continues to manufacture 200 million contaminated containers per year and distributes them for product sales.
Although an order to cease distribution of the containers was filed by the EPA, the company ignored it. Subsequently, the EPA and Justice Department filed a lawsuit where it was revealed that officials at Inhance Technologies repeatedly denied the violation, but later admitted there is no easy solution making high-density plastic containers without creating PFAS.
Next time your piping-hot food order arrives in a plastic container, or you step out of the bath and apply lotion to your skin, consider the danger that may come with it. PFAS are a known serious health threat, causing cancer and autoimmune, thyroid, and kidney diseases even at minimum levels. What happens next? Read more in The Guardian.
Well Street
Wow, not only are there bad actors at Inhance Technologies, but a series of missteps and "kid glove" tactics from the EPA is allowing the process that creates PFAS to continue.
If that wasn't enough, a whistleblower is alleging there are people in the EPA altering documents to make dangerous compounds appear safe?!
With plastics being used for just about everything, how can we determine if products we're using have PFAS?
Evangel
With such intentional lack of transparency, I don't think it's possible to know. Convenience food is convenient, but when served in plastic it comes with a health risk.