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If you want to get a sense of which foods could be high in DEHP, you can go here https://www.plasticlist.org/ https://www.plasticlist.org/ and sort by the "DE
by 0xDEAFBEAD 2y ago
If you want to get a sense of which foods could be high in DEHP, you can go here
https://www.plasticlist.org/ https://www.plasticlist.org/
and sort by the "DEHP" column.
If I understand correctly, an RXBAR could have up to 1% of your tolerable daily intake for DEHP, and most foods are well below that.
Based on the OP, it seems like DEHP might be a bigger issue in developing countries.
- gamblor956 2y agoFor a lot of the foods on the list, the DEHP, BPA, etc., come from the packaging materials. So, for example, Whole Foods organic grass fed beef appears to be very high in DEHP...if you get it in the plastic wrap container, but would have almost none if wrapped in wax paper (note: not the same thing as parchment paper). Similarly, a lot of restaurant to-go orders will test high for endocrine disruptors because they come in plastic containers, but would be low in these chemicals if tested at the restaurant.
- Exuma 2y agoI remember when this link went around that this 1% column didn't really quite make sense. 1% makes it sound like it's well within the limit, even if you ate 10 in-n-out cheeseburgers a day. I guess the question is, at what percent of the "tolerable daily intake" of DEHP do very bad side effects (like the heart issues in this post) start to occur?
- 0xDEAFBEAD 2y agoI mean yeah, the creators of PlasticList explicitly stated that they didn't change their eating habits based on their findings. Perhaps plastic contamination of food just isn't a huge issue in developed countries.