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I suppose, and particularly because we don’t know what materials are used in the equipment of *industrial* scale food processing. But the thing is, *all* plastics begin to break down when heat is applied to them (or under the UV rays of sunlight). So that plastic tub of macaroni and cheese you’re meant to throw in the microwave to heat; that’s leeching into the food as it cooks.
Glyphosate isn’t just used to spray on crops in the ground, too. It’s used as a desiccant once they’re harvested.
Agreed, food should not be stored, cooked or eaten out of a lot of plastics. Heating accelerates the leeching of the ones containing phenols but it still happens at room temp.
And yes, these compounds do break down in sunlight and even in water. Obviously they break down in the body too so not an accumulitive poison at least. Just constantly produced industrially and we are constantly exposed.
HDPE and LDPE contain no phenols when new but may contain them if made from recycling, especially LDPE.
Plastics like PP, TPU and PTFE contain no phenols at all.
PTFE is so inert that it wont even breakdown in sulight and reacts with practically nothing near room temperatures making it essentially a 'forever chemical'. I wonder if this is the plastic they find everywhere as small particles.
Edit: nope, lots of the bad ones are found as microparticles too
I don't know much about glyphosate so I will have to do some research.
I’m away from my desktop right now, but I can get you started. When [even jewish media](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/climate/glyphosate-roundup-retracted-study.html) is admitting that there are problems—and when the rest of the world already bans it for being a carcinogen—that should get people thinking. [This page](https://thetruthaboutcancer.com/glyphosate-dangers/) has its citations at the bottom and is a primer on the topic.
Thank you for the info. Some of the references in you second link have been removed just so ya know.
Looks like Germany is going for total phase out and Italy has banned pre havest use and use in public spaces.
Hopefully other countries follow suit.
I see that these glyphosates are chelating, strip nutrients, and potetially cause cancer and other issues. I don't see that they are endocrin disruptors at least. I think this is important as cancers can take a while and nutrients can be obtained elsewhere but lack of will to fight is a death sentance.
Glyphosate isn’t just used to spray on crops in the ground, too. It’s used as a desiccant once they’re harvested.
And yes, these compounds do break down in sunlight and even in water. Obviously they break down in the body too so not an accumulitive poison at least. Just constantly produced industrially and we are constantly exposed.
HDPE and LDPE contain no phenols when new but may contain them if made from recycling, especially LDPE.
Plastics like PP, TPU and PTFE contain no phenols at all.
PTFE is so inert that it wont even breakdown in sulight and reacts with practically nothing near room temperatures making it essentially a 'forever chemical'. I wonder if this is the plastic they find everywhere as small particles.
Edit: nope, lots of the bad ones are found as microparticles too
I don't know much about glyphosate so I will have to do some research.
Looks like Germany is going for total phase out and Italy has banned pre havest use and use in public spaces.
Hopefully other countries follow suit.
I see that these glyphosates are chelating, strip nutrients, and potetially cause cancer and other issues. I don't see that they are endocrin disruptors at least. I think this is important as cancers can take a while and nutrients can be obtained elsewhere but lack of will to fight is a death sentance.
If I ever run into a 404 site in my digging about something ideological, I throw it into the Wayback to see if it’s there.