# Trace chemicals in everyday food packaging cause worry over cumulative threat

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trace-chemicals-in-everyday-food-packaging-cause-worry-over-cumulative-threat/2012/04/16/gIQAUILvMT_story.html>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

In a study published last year in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, researchers put five San Francisco families on a three-day diet of food that hadnt been in contact with plastic. When they compared urine samples before and after the diet, the scientists were stunned to see what a difference a few days could make: The participants levels of bisphenol A (BPA), which is used to harden polycarbonate plastic, plunged  by two-thirds, on average  while those of the phthalate DEHP, which imparts flexibility to plastics, dropped by more than half.

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