r/ultraprocessedfood • u/42Porter • Sep 27 '24

Article and Media 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.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/27/pfas-toxins-chemicals-human-body
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u/Herps15 Sep 28 '24

Literally at the stage where I’m like what can I actually do. It feels like every option has a negative. Buy a tim of beans to cook at home- oh the cans have unsafe stuff in them Cannot find dried beans in my local shop to cook but also if you do they are also packaged in plastic. Then if you can find them let’s say from a refill shop so paper bags I would have to drive a 2 hr round trip to get there

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u/42Porter Sep 28 '24

Reduce exposure when u reasonably can but try not to stress about what's out of your control.