Medscape October 18, 2024
Materials that are in contact with food contain chemical substances that can migrate into food products and subsequently into the human body. Several of these substances have been studied, and the health risks that some of them pose have been well documented. One example is the well-known bisphenol A, which the European Commission has recommended banning in products in contact with food, particularly baby bottles. But there has been no comprehensive inventory of all substances that can migrate into food and of studies that examine their potential toxicity to the human body. An international team aimed to fill this gap, and their impressive work has been published in Nature.
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Using several registries, researchers identified 14,402 substances that are...
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