Plastic Food Packaging Contains Thousands of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals: Study

A woman carries a beverage in a plastic foam cup in New York City on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015. Foam cups, plates, trays, and packaging peanuts will be banned in New York City beginning in July. AP Photo/Mark Lennihan

Chemicals that disrupt the endocrine and metabolic systems are prevalent in plastic food packaging, according to the findings of a new study by scientists at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

The study (pdf), titled “Plastic Food Packaging from Five Countries Contains Endocrine- and Metabolism-Disrupting Chemicals,” was published in Environmental Science & Technology on March. 5.