FDA Found PFAS In Meat, Pineapple, And Chocolate Cake In Its First Broad Tests Of The Chemicals In Food
to cancer in in supermarket staples such as cooked meats and pineapple, the agency acknowledged on Tuesday, and found the highest levels in chocolate cake with chocolate frosting.for these"fluorinated" chemicals, also called"per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances," or"PFAS" chemicals, because they are widely found in water-resistant packaging and consumer products, and used to manufacture them.
PFAS chemicals are currently largely unregulated, but the ubiquity of these"forever chemicals" in water systems has spurred a raft of legislation to monitor and restrict their use and release, and some states are taking steps to limit them in the water supply. The Environmental Protection Agency last year said it would consider monitoring and limiting some compounds in the water, and announced in February aOver 600 sites have detected PFAS in the drinking water.
Researchers said it's the federal government's acknowledgement that the PFAS contamination problem stretches beyond drinking water systems. "This is the first time the FDA has tested for PFAS in such a highly diverse sample of foods," acting commissioner Norman Sharpless and deputy commissioner Frank Yiannas said in the"Overall, the FDA’s testing to date has shown that very few foods contain detectable levels of PFAS," added the statement."However, we know that levels may not be uniform and there is more work to be done.
"FDA routinely underestimates the risks chemicals pose, especially the risks posed by food chemicals that migrate from food packaging into food, including PFAS chemicals," EWG senior scientist David Andrews said.
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