Patrick Collison
@patrickc · Dec 27, 2024
There's been a lot (like, a lot) of discussion about plastic contamination in food over the past few years, but scant hard data about actual real-world prevalence. So Nat decided to go and meticulously measure it.
Nat Friedman@natfriedman· Dec 27, 2024We did it! We tested 300 Bay Area foods for plastic chemicals. We found some interesting surprises.
Top 5 findings in our test results:
1. Our tests found plastic chemicals in 86% of all foods, with phthalates in 73% of the tested products and bisphenols in 22%. It's
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Cool
11:27 PM · December 27, 2024 · 65.2K views
31
22
500