Testing commissioned by Mamavation blog found high levels of a marker of PFAS in nine of 11 baggies tested
Most of the nation’s plastic sandwich baggies contain toxic PFAS “forever chemicals”, an analysis suggests, raising questions about the products’ safety in the US.
Testing of 11 types of baggies made by major producers showed high levels of a marker of PFAS in nine.
The analysis, conducted by an Environmental Protection Agency-certified lab and commissioned by the Mamavation blog, is the latest to highlight the use of PFAS in the nation’s food packaging.
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The only brand that did not show any markers of PFAS was Ziploc. Public health advocates say the best way consumers can protect themselves is to use glass containers instead of plastic.
The list of those that do have PFAs:
- Boulder
- Complete Home
- Great Value
- If You Care
- Lunchskins
- Meijer
- Target
- Walgreens
Phew…I only use Ziploc as they really are better than other brands and seem to be the only one in this study at least that had no PFAS. That said, I really feel disgusted with how much our government has checked out protecting society from chemicals.
Not so much checked out as compromised by regulatory capture.
Consumer protections and government would benefit from prohibitions against individuals going from the private sector to government posts, and vice versa, much like the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) does in the US. It’s still not perfect, but it helps to reduce corporate interference in the government process.
Isn’t ziploc the most popular brand? I’ve never seen or heard of the rest of those other brands listed or those brands making plastic bags.
I use the Target gallon zipper bags, Ziploc gallon freezer bags, and Wegmans quart zipper bags. Wegmans wasn’t tested unfortunately.
The Target zipper is better quality than Ziploc, IMO, because Ziploc’s zipper always falls off. This is an outlier in Target’s mostly-shit quality brands. I’ve got like 100 Target bags left, which would last me about a year. I store 2 lb. bricks of cheese in them, which the article says is bad because it leeches chemicals faster.
🤷 Guess I’ll die. Fuck you Target.
Ziploc is definitely the most popular and known brand. It seems really weird that they waited to put that information at the very end of the article. I’m guessing it’s just to get people to keep reading - most people would have stopped reading if the first paragraph made it clear that this applies only to off-brand bags.
Many of those brands are the generics sold at their stores; they pay to have their branding on another companies bag.
Great Value is the Walmart brand. You could buy the bags for half the price of ziploc. Which I did cause I needed the savings at the time.
FYI you can buy compostable sandwich/ziplock bags in some stores now. Target has them.
Are they free from pfas?
