Food packaging chemicals and the safety data black hole

Posted by grinder265 in Safety & Side Effects - 1 points, 0 comments.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01092026/food-packaging-toxic-chemicals

This piece from Inside Climate News argues that a lot of the chemicals in food packaging never get independently tested, so nobody really knows what migrates into what we eat. The researcher quoted basically says it out loud, that the lack of public safety data on these contact chemicals is the elephant in the room. That tracks with what bugs me about a lot of "GRAS" type claims, where the original safety work was decades old and nobody reran it with modern assays.

For people running peptides or any chronic protocol, it kinda reframes the exposure math. You can obsess over dose and injection site rotation, but if your daily packaging is dosing you with undisclosed endocrine disruptors, that complicates the picture. I wanna know what the actual highest-risk categories are, like which coatings or plasticizers keep showing up in biomonitoring, so I can at least cut the obvious ones.

Anyone here actually look at packaging choices as part of their harm reduction, or am I overthinking it?

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