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04/11/2017 / By Russel Davis

Breakthrough allows scientists to track toxic chemicals from fast food wrappers as they contaminate the body

A team of researchers have created a new method in monitoring traces of perfluorinated compounds (PFAS), chemicals commonly used in fast-food wrappers, in the body. This comes just a month after a recent study showed that such chemicals were found in more than one third of food packaging tested. Health experts at the University of […]

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