Chemicals In Fast Food Wrappers Can Show Up In Your Blood

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You may want to think twice next time you order fast food from McDonalds or Arbys, because you may be ingesting more than just grease, oil and water. You are also ingesting the chemicals that are meant to supposedly protect you from grease, oil and water. The scary thing is you may not even realize it until you take your next blood test.

The Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto conducted a new study that was published in Environmental Health Perspectives, which shows that greaseproof papers, or PAPs, break down into PFCAs: carcinogens that are prone to build up and remain in the human body.

The most infamous of this class of chemical is PFOA, the ingredient in nonstick cookware.

Researchers have been studying for so long to find the source of humans relatively high PFOA levels that they realized that nonstick pans alone could not account for all of them.

Having to expose poor innocent rats to these junky chemicals all for the sake of exposing the crud were putting into our own bodies, scientists found levels of PAPs found in greaseproof papers and documented that they metabolized into significant concentrations of the carcinogens.

The results point to wrappers and a likely source of human exposure to PFOAs.

According to lead researcher Scott Mabury, a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto, "In this study we clearly demonstrate that the current use of PAPs in food contact applications does result in human exposure to PFCAs, including PFOA ...We can say unequivocally that PAPs are a source [of PFCAs] and the evidence from this study suggests this could be significant."

Bon apptit everybody!


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