The confetti effect involves using the same colour as the product, albeit a few shades brighter and meshed on top to make food colour more intense. But for most packaging, the colours sit beside ...

Chemicals used in food packaging and linked with health problems have been detected in the human body. The chemicals can move ...

Food containers and cookware are leaching more potentially hazardous chemicals into our bodies than previously thought, new ...

Shrink-wrap sealed around a piece of raw meat. Takeout containers filled with restaurant leftovers. Plastic bottles filled ...

The study, which was published in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, discovered that thousands of ...

That plastic wrap you find around the food you eat is far from benign: A new study shows that more than 3,600 chemicals leach ...

Plastic bottles filled with soft drinks. These are just a few types of food packaging that surround humans every day. And a new study released Monday shows the chemical toll of all that wrapping ...

Plastic waste is a global problem, and the food sector is one of its main drivers. It only takes a quick visit to a ...

The US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) formal regulation of food packaging began in 1958 with the Food Additives Amendment to the Federal ...

Sept. 17, 2024 – People ingest tiny, chemical-containing bits of things that touch the food and drink we consume every day. There are a vast number of sources of these chemicals, ranging from ...

More than 3,600 chemicals that leach into food during the manufacturing, processing, packaging and storage of the world’s food supply end up in the human body — and some are connected to ...

Certain chemicals are leaching from food packaging into food and have been detected in human bodies — and a new study sheds light on just how much. Whether all of these chemicals pose ...