Reacción a "More than 3,000 chemicals in contact with food are identified in human samples"

A team of leading scientific researchers, such as Birgit Geueke and Martin Scheringer, systematizes knowledge that is unavoidable for the public, for a very broad spectrum of researchers (human physiology and medicine, materials, chemistry, public health) and for the institutions in charge of reducing our internal contamination, one of the main sources of which is food packaging. We have long reasoned the reasons for our concern about this widespread chemical contamination, which clearly contributes to immunological, metabolic, neoplastic, endocrine, cardiovascular or neurological diseases.

Although more knowledge is always lacking, we have enough to mitigate the migration and transfer of multiple toxic substances from packaging to food and into our bodies. Such mitigation is hardly within the reach of each individual: it requires corporate policies and politics.

Citizens must be more supportive of the most diligent companies and administrations and those that promote good etiological and mechanistic research. Also, biomonitoring studies linked to health surveys in the general population, which, unfortunately, in Spain are only being carried out in Barcelona, although there are good studies in non-representative samples, which also offer worrying results.

I recommend consulting the databases constructed by the study's author team.