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Chemicals enter humans through food packaging

A research conducted by exposure science and environmental epidemiology researchers, and published in the European Union journal, has found that a chemical called bisphenol-A is present in the human body. This chemical is found in food packaging and plastics. The research has concluded that this chemical has an adverse effect on the hormones in the human body. Up to 3,600 chemicals have entered the human body through food packaging. Of these, a new study has found 100 chemicals to be extremely harmful to health. Research conducted in Switzerland has stated that harmful PFAs chemicals have entered the human body. Such chemicals are known as "forever chemicals". These chemicals remain in the body permanently and affect the human body structure. A list of about 14,000 chemicals has been prepared, and these chemicals reach food through glass, metal, plastic, paper, and other mediums. Similarly, wrapping food in newspapers can also be dangerous, as noted in the research. The harmful "forever chemicals" in food packaging should be considered "never ever chemicals" from a human health perspective. Because these chemicals are creating toxicity in the human body.




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Disturbance to communal harmony is heartbreaking

GASTON DIAS, Sarzora
Published Oct 6, 2024, 8:08 PM IST
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Let us read this analogy from Swami Vivekanand, who said, "As so many rivers (all religious faiths), having their source in different mountains, roll down, crooked, or straight, and at last come into the ocean. This is what our most loving harmonious Goa is looked at by the world. One wonders, what the foreign tourists who know Goa as one of the most peaceful, kind, loving destiny are trapped in a turmoil with what they see or hear on social media”it is not good for the…

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