A recent headline claimed compostable bowls from popular restaurant chains like Chipotle and Sweetgreen contain PFAS chemicals that may be bad for environmental and consumer health.
The non-profit, food-focused investigative website New Food Economy released a report earlier this week that built a case claiming that moldable food containers are not as good for the environment, nor as safe for humans as people may think, because they contain polyfluoroalkyl substances .
Features editor, Joe Fassler, who wrote the NFE report told ABC News that"these are substances of extreme concerns to scientists, but a lot is unknown" and more research needs to be done. Fassler agreed that"the issue isn’t so much that you’re going to have exposure through the food you’re eating from the bowl -- but it’s more because it’s that it will get exposed to the water in the compost facilities."
"We’ve begun putting together what is required to do the additional test which then tests for the specific PFAS to detect whether it’s the short chain or long chain PFAS that are showing [in the samples]," Cox said. More research is needed to understand if PFAS transferring from packaging into food is a serious source of exposure to humans.
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