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•New study finds thousands of toxins from food packaging in human samples: 'They transfer known hazardous chemicals into people'
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A new study found 25% of known food contact chemicals are present in human samples.
Many of these chemicals are known hazards, including "forever chemicals" and known carcinogens.
Researchers theorized that there are actually more FCCs present in humans than they have yet found.
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