Is Fast Food a New Source of EDCs?

  • Apr 2016

Consumers who ate fast food within the last 24 hours were found to have elevated levels of some industrial chemicals in their systems according to a study from Environmental Health Perspectives.

Bloomberg reported that this study is the first examination at how popular fast food items may expose people to endocrine-disrupting chemicals — particularly phthalates — which are used to make plastics more durable.

Experts recommend that consumers who are concerned about phthalate exposure should essentially do what everyone’s mother said to do in the first place: Eat your vegetables, or, “eat low on the food chain.”

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