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Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food

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Re: Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food

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Hooray for Consumer Reports! They're one of the few truly independent (e.g. no paid sponsorships like you see on YouTube channels) product testing and review companies. I have a subscription to them and it's served me well, and I hope they stick around for a while.

Who else is there? Today's consumer protections for anything Internet related feels nonexistent. Who else is like Consumer Reports?

Re: Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food

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Are there places where eating plastics is considered a normal food or food additive?

i been chewing coca cola caps since the 80s

Check your balls for little coca cola logos.

Re: Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food

#73

Hooray for Consumer Reports! They're one of the few truly independent (e.g. no paid sponsorships like you see on YouTube channels) product testing and review companies. I have a subscription to them and it's served me well, and I hope they stick around for a while.

Who else is there? Today's consumer protections for anything Internet related feels nonexistent. Who else is like Consumer Reports?

Consumer Labs, at least, which does more low-level lab testing than CR. Don't know of any others.

Re: Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food

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Toothless? How about clueless then? Or better, favors Big Inc profits over public health. Call it what you want, but the FDA is too often a paper tiger.

Only someone who has never worked under the FDAs eye of Sauron could think this, strong Dunning-Kruger vibe.

> FDA staffers play a pivotal role in drug approvals, presenting evidence to the agency's advisory panels and influencing or making approval decisions. They are free to move to jobs in pharma, and many do;in a 2016 study in The BMJ, researchers examined the job histories of 55 FDA staff who had conducted drug reviews over a 9-year period in the hematologyoncology field. They found that 15 of the 26 employees who left the agency later worked or consulted for the biopharmaceutical industry.[1]

I don't have to work at the FDA to see that it's compromised. Somebody already figured it out.

https://www.science.org/content/article/fda-s-revolving-door...

Re: Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food

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I mean, what would you even use as the control group? They're in every single human at this point.

I'll happily sign up to be mega-dosed with them for a trial, but they've tried that in mice and found pretty much no issues.

Same here. Where are the challenge trials? Even if these effects exist, they're so small that I wouldn't lose any sleep over it
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