Plastic chemicals are linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide
Plastic food packaging can expose people to chemicals such as bisphenol A (BPA).
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Hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of cases of heart disease worldwide may be linked to chemicals found in common plastic products, suggesting that stricter regulations on such toxins could benefit public health.
Maureen Cropper At the University of Maryland, she and her colleagues evaluated the public health impact of exposure to three types of chemicals used primarily in the plastics industry: bisphenol A (BPA), di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (BDEs). PBDEs). BPA and DEHP are found in plastic food containers and PBDEs…