Junk food wrappers 'leach toxic chemicals into your body - and could leave you infertile'

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Junk food wrappers 'leach toxic chemicals into your body, and could leave you infertile'

REGULARLY eating takeaways or fast food may increase your risk of infertility and cancer - due to the packaging, experts warn.

An earlier study by the same group found that PFAS are commonly used for packaging in the fast food industry as they are grease-proof and durable. The participants also provided blood samples that had been analysed for a number of different PFAS chemicals.The vast majority of these meals consisted of food purchased at a grocery store.

Lead author Dr Laurel Schaider, an environmental chemist at Silent Spring, said: "This is the first study to observe a link between different sources of food and PFAs exposures in the US population. She added: "The general conclusion here is the less contact your food has with food packaging, the lower your exposures to PFAs and other harmful chemicals.

 

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Right, so now eating food wrappers is bad for you.

must be good new's to climate change protestor's as the human population is the biggest problem !

So does reading the Sun

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