The FDA -- for the first time -- has tested food on grocery store shelves for toxic grease and stain-repelling chemicals called PFASs that are known to stick around in the body and the environment for long periods of time.
June 5, 2019 -- The FDA for the first time has tested food on grocery store shelves for a class of risky grease- and stain-repelling chemicals that are known to stick around in the body and the environment for a long time.
“We think it is a big deal,” says Tom Neltner, chemicals policy director at the Environmental Defense Fund in Washington, D.C. “It’s FDA sampling showing not just contamination of food around hot spots, but contamination of food you’re going to buy in stores that nobody would suspect were contaminated,” he says.
“The poster kind of concluded that they didn’t think the levels were of concern. I think what we have to remember is that the agricultural products are only one source of exposure. We’re all exposed from multiple sources,” she says.The FDA declined to comment on its findings. The agency postedIn October 2017, the FDA ordered testing of 91 samples of fruits, vegetables, meats, milk, and baked goods purchased at grocery stores in three unnamed cities in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Companies are supposed to notify the FDA when they use chemicals they’ve deemed safe in food packaging.
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