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Pretty damning that the FDA only issued a report on this after a court ordered them to. I can't really help but believe that this is willful negligence - if some of these have already been banned for use in children's toys, why would it be fine in a plastic bag the child holds food in? I ate a sandwich every day from a plastic bag for ~12 years...


If it makes you feel any better, ziploc bags don’t contain phthalates. They’re used in different types of plastic.


All the advice on this is way too generic.

I as a consumer need more actionable advice. Study after study focus on chemical substances I have no empirical understanding of.

- Give me a list of types of plastic that use these plasticizers.

- Give me a list of consumer brands that use those plastics.

- Give me a list of hygiene products that use phtalates under the "perfume" label in their composition.

Publish something like this and consumers will take their money elsewhere and the Unilever's, P&G, and J&J, of the world can take notes.


That's how they roll. They were forced to release the Pfizer covid data early. Initially they wanted to release it over the course of 75 years. https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/paramount-importanc...




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