The Race to Replace Palm Oil — What's Actually Coming to Shelves
Palm oil is in an enormous share of packaged food — biscuits, chocolate, instant noodles, bread, margarine — because it's cheap, stable at room temperature, and trans-fat free.

Palm oil is in an enormous share of packaged food — biscuits, chocolate, instant noodles, bread, margarine — because it's cheap, stable at room temperature, and trans-fat free.

Australian regulators have proposed allowing up to 500 times more residue of a pesticide called isocycloseram on some berries. The pesticide is classified as a PFAS "forever chemical" by international bodies, and its label is required to carry one of

If you've ever wondered why your takeaway box doesn't go soggy, or why a bakery bag doesn't leak butter, the answer is often PFAS — a family of thousands of synthetic chemicals used for decades to make packaging grease-, oil- and water-resistant.

In our last post on glyphosate, we covered why oats, wheat and barley carry some of the highest glyphosate residues of any food — not because of genetic modification, but because of a pre-harvest spraying practice called desiccation.
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