How to limit toxic exposure from holiday feasts

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You might not be able to avoid the toxic relative at your dinner table this Thanksgiving, but you can try to limit your exposure to toxic chemicals in this year's feast. A report released last week evaluates retailer efforts to eliminate toxic chemicals, including in food packaging. Touted as the largest-ever study of its kind, the study rates retailers for their chemical safety policies. "For the first time ever, major retail grocers and restaurants are focused on eliminating classes of toxic chemicals, such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), ortho-phthalates and bisphenols from food packaging materials, which have been found to be a source of exposure to harmful contaminants," said a press release from Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families, calling the development a "major consumer health win."