New Report Shows Forever Chemicals Lurking in Food Wrappers

These chemicals persist in the environment, are linked with significant health conditions and are found in wrappers from your favorite restaurants and stores. Biodegradable may not be better.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Testing by Consumer Reports found PFAS, also known as "forever chemicals," widespread in food containers and wrappers. PFAS chemicals banned for production in the U.S. were most frequently detected

• Testing for specific PFAS compounds is difficult. The researchers found the 30 compounds they could identify accounted for less than 1% of al…