Eating canned soup for five days raised the BPA in people’s urine more than tenfold
Food and drink cans have a thin plastic lining. In a 2011 Harvard trial, people who ate one can of soup a day had…
Chemicals and additives
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Hot oil pulled flame retardants out of black plastic utensils
University of Birmingham researchers found that, on average, a fifth of the flame retardants in contaminated black plastic utensils moved into hot cooking oil.…
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Black plastic kitchenware and food trays can contain flame retardants from recycled electronics
A 2024 study found banned flame retardants from old electronics in black plastic utensils, food trays and toys. Its health risk estimate was later…
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What we know about plastic and dogs
A short Beyond Plastics fact sheet on how dogs are exposed to plastic and its chemicals: chew toys, food and packaging, household dust and…
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Microplastics in soil pose global threat by acting like ‘Trojan horse’ to deliver toxins
Exclusive: Plastic surfaces form hotspots with an increase of antibiotic-resistant genes, study findsMicroplastics act like a “Trojan horse” delivering pollutants, pesticides and bacteria through…
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Evidence, implications and mitigation of plastic-derived contaminants in infant food: a systematic review
Nature (environmental sciences), 21 Sep 2026 · Peer-reviewed journal Headline and description from the publisher's own feed. Read the original at the source link.
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Lancet Countdown: plastics cost more than US$1.5 trillion a year in health damage
The Lancet’s new annual tracker calls plastics a grave, growing and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health.
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Minderoo-Monaco Commission: plastics harm health at every stage of their life
The first full-lifecycle medical review found plastics cause disease from oil extraction through manufacturing, use and disposal.
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One plastic chemical linked to 356,000 heart-disease deaths a year
New York University (NYU) researchers estimate the plasticiser di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) was linked to 13.5% of all cardiovascular deaths among 55–64-year-olds worldwide in 2018.
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144 chemicals known to be hazardous are actively used in plastics
The Endocrine Society and International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN)’s guide catalogues the plastic additives linked to cancer, diabetes, infertility and developmental harm.