Packaging and Processed Meat Linked to Forever Chemicals: USC Study

Customers shop for meat at a supermarket in Chicago, Illinois, on June 10, 2021. Scott Olson/Getty Images

A new study in young adults, which took place in Southern California from 2014 to 2022, found increased blood levels of so-called forever chemicals after eating pork, hot dogs, beef, and other processed meat and drinking tea.

Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California (USC) published the study in the Environment International journal on Feb. 4.