Berkeley Lovelace Jr. is a health and medical reporter for NBC News. He covers the Food and Drug Administration, with a special focus on Covid vaccines, prescription drug pricing and health care. He previously covered the biotech and pharmaceutical industry with CNBC.
Chemicals once commonly found in a range of products, including pizza boxes and microwave popcorn bags, are no longer being used in food packaging in the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday. Eliminating the grease-proofing substances ends a yearslong campaign by the agency to phase out per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or
create a barrier that prevents oils, greases and water from seeping through food packaging, keeping the food dry and fresh. They were once unavoidable in people’s day-to-day lives, being used in everything from fast-food wrappers to pet food bags. Following extensive research over the last decade that found the chemicals can leach into food and may be associated with serious health problems in humans, food manufacturers gradually began to phase them out.
from authorized food contact uses,” the FDA said in the release Wednesday. It's been a drawn-out process; the possible health risks of , noting that the chemicals may harm humans and the environment. A recent study published in The Lancet's eBioMedicine found that
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