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Tuesday, December 23, 2025

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The Plastic Chemicals Hiding in Your Food

Consumer Reports [no paywall – 2024] “CR tested popular fast foods and supermarket staples for bisphenols and phthalates, which can be harmful to your health. Here’s what we found—and how to stay safer. 

By the time you open a container of yogurt, the food has taken a long journey to reach your spoon. You may have some idea of that journey: From cow to processing to packaging to store shelves. But at each step, there is a chance for a little something extra to sneak in, a stowaway of sorts that shouldn’t be there. That unexpected ingredient is something called a plasticizer:

 a chemical used to make plastic more flexible and durable. Today, plasticizers—the most common of which are called phthalates—show up inside almost all of us, right along with other chemicals found in plastic, including bisphenols such as BPA. These have been linked to a long list of health concerns, even at very low levels. Consumer Reports has investigated bisphenols and phthalates in food and food packaging a few times over the past 25 years. 


In our new tests, we checked a wider variety of foods to see how much of the chemicals Americans actually consume. The answer? Quite a lot. Our tests of nearly 100 foods found that despite growing evidence of potential health threats, bisphenols and phthalates remain widespread in our food…”

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  • Kim Kardashian, who is famous for something, announced recently that she failed the California bar exam. She previously failed the so-called the “baby bar,” a multiple-choice test required for people who study law via apprenticeship instead of, you know, actually going to law school. Kardashian has supposedly been apprenticing for over six years now, and did pass the baby bar on her fourth try, but for now has gone no further. To be fair, the pass rate for the California bar exam is notoriously low, and many people have initially failed it but then gone on to become good lawyers. To be less fair, virtually all of those people had a law degree, which Kim Kardashian doesn’t, or at least a college degree, which Kim Kardashian also doesn’t. (From Lowering the Bar)
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