When you’re on the go, it’s pretty convenient to grab a packaged snack. But new research finds that a slew of chemicals from that the wrappings can wind up in your body.
The study, which was published in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, discovered that thousands of chemicals from food packaging can leach into the items themselves.
That doesn’t sound great—and it’s not. But how concerned about this should you be? A toxicologist explains.