07 Jun 2022 --- Plastic monomers that are known to have carcinogenic, mutagenic and toxic to reproduction (CMR) hazard properties can easily transfer into food products, making them highly relevant for human exposure, finds a new study. According to the researchers, many of these chemicals are common in European food packaging. Published in The Journal of Hazardous Materials, the study refutes the common assumption that monomers, which serve as starting materials for manufacturing plastic polymers, do not migrate from finished food packaging into food products.
