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A study has found that changing how we handle food can help to create a low plastic diet'. Measuring chemicals such as phthalates and bisphenols in 211 healthy volunteers showed that they all had high levels in their body when on a typical diet, but this could be lowered by avoiding foods that have touched plastic, either by being wrapped in it or through the technological processing of it. Easier said than done for most of us! independent.co.uk/news/science…
A study has found that changing how we handle food can help to create a low plastic diet'. Measuring chemicals such as phthalates and bisphenols in 211 healthy volunteers showed that they all had high levels in their body when on a typical diet, but this could be lowered by avoiding foods that have touched plastic, either by being wrapped in it or through the technological processing of it. Easier said than done for most of us! independent.co.uk/news/science…
Simple change in food handling process can cut exposure to toxic plastic chemicals by half
Levels of plastic chemicals phthalates and bisphenols could be cut by about 50 per cent with interventionVishwam Sankaran (The Independent)
