New ‘high safety’ chemicals in plastic food packaging linked to lower birth weight, study finds

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Dinch, an allegedly ‘safe’ alternative, used in the EU and US also found to cause fetal development complications Exposure to a new generation of allegedly “safe” plasticizers is linked to lower birth weight and fetal development complications, which could cause serious health problems later in life, a new peer-reviewed study found. As the health risks in exposure to common phthalate plasticizers became clear over the last few decades, industry began switching to a new type of chemical, called Dinch, that it claimed was a “high safety” , nontoxic alternative. It is widely used in soft plastic food packaging in the United States and European U

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