{"id":11558,"date":"2019-06-07T15:56:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T19:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/?p=11558"},"modified":"2019-07-24T19:36:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T23:36:08","slug":"fda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/fda\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA: Sampling Finds Toxic Nonstick Compounds in Some Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11561\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11561\" style=\"width: 364px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11561 size-third_column\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/FDA_Wheeler-364x243.jpg\" alt=\"Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler speaks during a National Press Club meeting in Washington on June 3, 2019 where he describes the results of the FDA\u2019s first broad testing of food for chemical class of concern.\" width=\"364\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/FDA_Wheeler-364x243.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/FDA_Wheeler-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/FDA_Wheeler-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/FDA_Wheeler-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/FDA_Wheeler-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/FDA_Wheeler.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11561\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler speaks during a National Press Club meeting in Washington on June 3, 2019 where he describes the results of the FDA\u2019s first broad testing of food for chemical class of concern. Image credit: The Associated Press<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Food and Drug Administration has found high levels of PFAS in several grocery store products resulting from testing done by FDA researchers. Much of the meat and fish tested show at least double the current federal advisory level set for PFAS. The highest amounts of the chemical were found in samples of chocolate cake, nearly 250 times more than the listed federal guidelines. Researchers suggest that limited exposure to few contaminated products is unlikely to cause health problems, but prolonged exposures summed over a lifetime can collectively be associated with certain health risks.<\/p>\n<p>Spokeswoman Tara Rabin of the FDA claims this contamination is unlikely to be a health concern, but the results raise alarm amongst stakeholders and other relevant authorities. The EPA has set advisory limits near a threshold of 70 parts per trillion for different forms of the contaminants, but, unsatisfied by federal action, several states have progressed toward regulating the contaminants independently.<\/p>\n<p>The contaminants are now being called \u201cforever chemicals\u201d due to their long degradation period, which can be up to thousands of years, and their accumulation capability in the human body. Researchers note that additional investigation on the level and range of PFAS in the environment is necessary to propose a viable solution to the concerns presented in the FDA\u2019s findings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/e9c5fa42a1244de48e3edea7a1bb14eb\">Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Food and Drug Administration has found high levels of PFAS in several grocery store products resulting from testing done by FDA researchers. Much of the meat and fish tested show at least double the current federal advisory level set for PFAS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002,"featured_media":11561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pfas-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11564,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11558\/revisions\/11564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}