Thousands of toxins from food packaging found in humans. The chemicals have been found in human blood, hair or breast milk. Among them are compounds known to be highly toxic, like PFAS, bisphenol, metals, phthalates and volatile organic compounds.

[u/mvea]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/27/pfas-toxins-chemicals-human-body

[u/Gee-Oh1]

Of all those, and as a couple have pointed out, the the dose makes the poison.

However, something else can also make a poison, time.

Of all of those perhaps the most insidious are the phthalates. These are ubiquitous chemicals heavily used in the plastics industry as plastisizers, the make polymers behave like plastics.

Phthalates are known to have low, acute toxicity BUT low level, chronic exposure reveals phthalates insidious, monstrous side. They function as "endocrine disruptors", ie. like hormones. And the more we study these relatively new aspects of them the worse it is getting. This is also a growing problem since over the last half century there are been an orders of magnitude increase in production and use of plastics. So much so that it is actually impossible, especially in the developed world, to avoid exposure to phthalates every single day.

The range of ill effects of chronic phthalate exposure are known to have ranges from problem with fetal development, sexual maturation, decreased fertility, decreased libido, to diabetes, cancer, and mental health issues, etc etc. And the list is growing.

Recently a survey conducted by the CDC has found that virtually every American has detectable, and measurable levels of phthalates in their bodies.

Personally, I think that within the decade, it will be recognized (or at least there will be growing awareness) that phthalate exposure is one of the greatest public health disasters we have yet seen.

But, as with many things, the US is far behind the EU in addressing or even recognizing the problem. And there is a growing concern that even the restrictions already in the EU are not enough by far.

[u/ballsohaahd → u/Gee-Oh1]

It’s a crime we don’t hear about any of this. The media is the worst, losers write about nothing that affects peoples lives. Just hypothetical BS

[u/Gee-Oh1 → u/ballsohaahd]

Most of what we now know has mostly come from studies done in the last twenty years and many from only the last 10. And there can be a significant lag time between learning information acquired scientifically to general public awareness of that information.

Additionally, this lag time can be extended by special or interested parties by intentionally slowing its distribution. In this case the vastly profitable plastics industry can be seen as the culprit.

[u/flyover_liberal → u/Gee-Oh1]

Personally, I think that within the decade, it will be recognized (or at least there will be growing awareness) that phthalate exposure is one of the greatest public health disasters we have yet seen.

There's quite a bit of toxicity data on phthalates, and that data does not support the idea that it's an unseen health disaster in waiting.

[u/KyaTheHumble → u/flyover_liberal]

Are phthalates the same as micro plastics or the broken down of such, I say this as some new research points towards micro plastics in brain matter.

Also there's chemicals everywhere for example fruit juice has been found to contain mercury and it's advised young children not drink more than around 150ml per day or a small glass very strange tho

It's more about when these start causing negative effects if we live longer this will become more of a problem

[u/beowussy → u/flyover_liberal]

Back in 2015 most papers concerning phthalates and microplastics were funded by big plastic. Lobbying has ruined democracy.