Hundreds of Chemicals Linked to Breast Cancer Found in Food Packaging, Alarming New Study Reveals
A shocking new study found that nearly 200 chemicals linked to breast cancer are being used in food packaging, and, worse yet, dozens of the carcinogens can find their way into the body.
“There is strong evidence that 76 known or potential breast carcinogens from food contact materials recently purchased all over the world can be found in people,” Jane Muncke, co-author of the study and managing director and chief scientific officer of the Food Packaging Forum, a nonprofit foundation based in Zurich, Switzerland, told CNN this week.
This revelation comes amid a sharp rise in cancer diagnoses among young people. A January study led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that breast cancer diagnoses have increased steadily in women under 50 over the last two decades.
Muncke maintained: “Getting rid of these known or suspected carcinogens in our food supply is a huge opportunity for cancer prevention.”
Silent Spring Institute — a scientific research organization focused on the link between chemicals, women’s health and breast cancer — published a list in 2007 of more than 200 chemicals that can cause breast tumors in animals.