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over 170 harmful chemicals are legally allowed in food packaging

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By admin on Mon, 04/13/2015 - 17:42

naturalnews more than 170 toxic chemicals banned from european consumer products such as computers and textiles are still allowed for use in food packaging, according to a study conducted by researchers from the food packaging forum and published in the journal food additives &amp contaminants.&quotchemicals with highly toxic properties may legally be used in the production of food contact materials, but not in other consumer products such as computers, textiles and paints even though exposure through food contact materials may be far more relevant,&quot researcher jane muncke, phd, said. &quotfrom a consumer perspective, it is certainly undesirable and also unexpected to find chemicals of concern being intentionally used in food contact materials.&quotcancer and hormone disruptionthe researchers compiled a list of chemicals used in food packaging from a variety of sources, including the european food and safety authority&39s esco working group list of nonplastic food contact substances and the authorized plastic food contact substances from annex i of the european union&39s commission regulation no. 102011. they then crossreferenced this list with the tedx list of endocrine disruptors and the substitute it now list of proven hazardous chemicals.of the chemicals legally approved for use in food packaging, at least 175 have been shown by scientific studies to be dangerous. some of the chemicals have shown carcinogenic or mutagenic effects some have shown toxicity to the reproductive system, and some have demonstrated hormone endocrine disrupting effects. in addition to being toxic, many of the chemicals persist in the environment and accumulate in the tissues of animals, including humans.among the toxic chemicals allowed in packaging are phthalates, used to soften plastics, which have been shown to produce cancer, genital deformity and male infertility. other chemicals allowed in food packaging include perchlorate a jet fuel additive that damages the thyroid gland, tributyltin which harms the immune system and even asbestos.&quotwe are especially concerned about chemicals that affect hormonal activity, known as endocrine disrupting chemicals, or ecds,&quot dr. muncke said. &quotthese chemicals can lead to health effects later in life, like predisposition for obesity, diabetes, and cancer, and we don&39t know if there are safe exposure levels.&quottoxics loophole exempts food productsthere are many situations in which toxic chemicals could move from food, the researchers warned.&quotfood contact materials fcms are intended to be in contact with food during production, handling or storage,&quot they wrote. &quotthey are one possible source of food contamination, because chemicals may migrate from the material into the food.&quottoxic chemicals in the study were identified as &quotsubstances of very high concern svhc&quot under the european union&39s registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals reach regulation. yet, due to a regulatory loophole, reach regulations do not apply to food packaging.&quotreach currently covers consumer products but toys and things like that, but food is different, and we are saying why don&39t we bring it together so that we can have a regulation where chemicals used in food packaging would need similar notification before usage,&quot dr. muncke said.more than 6,000 chemicals are known to be used in food packaging, dr. muncke said, and many of them have not been tested for safety. trade secrets legislation also protects manufacturers from having to reveal or even knowing the exact chemical composition of the packaging that they use for their products.nevertheless, the researchers called on manufacturers to voluntarily end the use of toxic chemicals in food packaging. in the meantime, consumers can protect themselves by purchasing more fresh, nonpackaged food storing food in glass, stainless steel or ceramic containers at home and refraining from heating food in plastic, styrofoam or coated cardboard.sources for this article includehttpwww.express.co.ukhttpwww.dailymail.co.ukhttpwww.prevention.comhttpwww.f… pdf&nbsp

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