If you bought a salad bowl for lunch in a compostable cardboard container, that greener choice may have come with a dash of “forever chemicals” called PFAS — and so do other kinds of paper food packaging in Canada, a new study suggests.
Should you worry? Here’s a closer look at what those chemicals are, what food packaging they’re found in most, and what the findings of the study mean.
What are ‘forever chemicals’?
PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are a group of more than 9,000 human-made chemicals that contain fluorine bonded to carbon, a strong chemical bond that makes them hard to break down. That
