In a press release published on August 10, 2020, the US non-governmental organization (NGO) Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families (SCHF) announced the release of two guides for grocery stores and quick-service restaurants offering “straightforward steps for chains to make sure their food packaging is truly free of all PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances).” The guides, developed by the SCHF’s Mind the Store Campaign in partnership with Toxic-Free Futures, aim to help “find a clear path to adopt and implement policies to go PFAS-free.”
SCHF’s investigative campaigns have repeatedly demonstrated PFAS’ presence in the food contact articles sourced from restaurants (FPF reported) and grocery stores (FPF reported). The NGO urges food service providers to “do more to get these unnecessary toxic chemicals out of food contact materials” and deems it “critically important . . . to ban the entire PFAS calls, not just some PFAS chemicals.”
Read more
Jen Dickman (August 10, 2020). “How retailers can stop packaging food with ‘forever chemicals.’”
Chemical Watch (August 10, 2020). “US NGO publishes guidance for restaurants, grocery chains to eliminate PFASs.”
References
Mind the Store Campaign (August 10, 2020). “A guide for grocery chains: Banning PFAS in food-contact materials.” (pdf)
Mind the Store Campaign (August 10, 2020). “A guide for quick-service restaurant chains: Banning PFAS in food-contact materials.” (pdf)
