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We were joined by CR members and local groups to hand-deliver over 35,000 petition signatures to General Mills headquarters near Minneapolis, MN, calling on the company to address the problem of plastic chemicals, called phthalates, in their food products.
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How have these risks been quantified with probabilities? Have threshold levels been identified to determine what levels are unsafe?
Healthcare (Basel). 2021 May; 9(5): 603.
Published online 2021 May 18. doi: 10.3390/healthcare9050603
PMCID: PMC8157593
PMID: 34069956
Phthalates and Their Impacts on Human Health
Yufei Wang1,2 and Haifeng Qian1
And yet, not a single word about HFC. What a joke.
Spoiler alert: that guy never delivered those documents
At this point, more studies have been done on animals than on people.
One study links high levels of phthalate exposure to early death in older people.
The researchers looked at data on more than 5,000 adults in the U.S. They found that those between 55 and 64 years old with the highest levels of phthalates in their urine were more likely to die of heart disease than those with lower levels.
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People in the high-exposure group were also likelier to die of any cause. But high concentrations of phthalates didn’t seem to raise the chances of dying from cancer.
The researchers say their findings suggest that daily contact with phthalates may lead to the early deaths of about 100,000 older Americans a year, costing the country an estimated $40 billion to $47 billion in lost economic productivity each year.
But the study only suggests a link between phthalates and dying early.
Thank God I live in Europe
Better don’t buy anymore processed foods from such corporations.
Buy real, much more healthier food from peasants/farmers, otherwise you’ll life will be considerably shorter.