There is a warning about food packaging, a study reveals a disconcerting fact: health is at risk – Abruzzo Cityrumors

What you eat can be bad for you. A new study shows that it can happen even if you try to be careful: the problem is food packaging.

When shopping, it is a rule that should always be followed for various reasons avoid packaged foods as much as possible. In fact, the materials that make up the many food packaging materials can dangerous both for the environment and also, as a recent study revealed, for human health.

In detail, and this is the most amazing thing, the products we will talk about they reach the human body only by contact with food. So, contrary to what is commonly believed, it is not just a matter of temperature.

The risk of food packaging, a Swiss study

Among the problems in our daily life are the evening chemical substances that are dangerous to health. And this release is usually thought of as something that happens for example when there’s a lot of traffic and therefore a lot of smog But among the many sources of exposure to chemical substances that can be dangerous to health are pleasurable activities such as eating.

Il problem it comes from what makes it up trays, i luggage, the movies in which the food is wrapped. Of the nearly 15,000 items that come into contact with food during their life on shelves and in production facilities there are half of 2000 that they may be on this path to absorb from food and then being absorbed by humans.

Study conducted by Food Packaging Forum Foundation of Zurich has discovered in 5 years that food packaging materials are reaching drop 3600 different items which reaches the body and is then found for example within the sweat, of the blood, since urine even in breast milk, In the’ skin and in the placenta.

For the most part, these products are still related PFAS with large quantities also of plasticizers, phthalates, heavy metals, dioxins, pesticides, bisphenols e what do they do

All these substances have long been responsible for a series of pathologies that affect people. To understand what the danger is, let’s take PFAS, which are believed to be responsible for various human diseases thyroid, since ulcerative colitis, of some forms cancer to the spleen and kidneys, to cases of high blood pressure during pregnancy and to increase cholesterol.

As far as I’m concerned bisphenols, however, bisphenol A is especially considered harmful and dangerous for the immune system even at low doses as well as adversely affecting the endocrine system, on the fertility and also cause some allergic skin reactions.

Il benzene, in the case of long-term exposure, however, it can lead to different forms of leukemia. The fact that these substances and others were found in the most diverse samples of human tissues shows how widespread food packaging in which they are still widespread.