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"CR found 'forever chemicals' in bowls, bags, plates, and wrappers, even from some companies that say they've phased them out"

https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-contaminants/dan...




No, they found organic fuorine in the products. FTA:

> CR tested products for their total organic fluorine content, which is considered the simplest way to assess a material’s total PFAS content."

Totally different, and so completely misleading that it's mind-boggling. Do you know how many things have organic fluorine that have nothing to do with PFAS? Here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organofluorine_chemistry

They repeatedly say in the article that it's basically impossible to reduce organic fluorine content to zero, because it's everywhere. You cannot leap to the conclusion that "finding organic fluorine" has any relationship to Teflon in food wrapping (especially at the 20ppm threshold they used), and you also can't jump to the conclusion that this means that there's a specific health risk.

They do test for a few specific PFAS compounds "in a subset" of the wrappers later in the article. This is more compelling -- but again, you don't know where it comes from.


Per the article there are few sources of that substance other than PFAS. What makes you believe that there are many sources for it?

"That’s because all PFAS contain organic fluorine, and there are few other sources of the compound, says Graham Peaslee, PhD, a professor of physics, chemistry, and biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, who has studied PFAS in food packaging.

Another complication: PFAS is used so widely—found in ink on food containers, recycled paper, machines that make packaging, and more—that it often shows up in products unintentionally."


Here is another study they did that is phthalate and they link a PDF of their methodology: https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-contaminants/the...




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