{"id":29043,"date":"2018-10-24T16:45:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T11:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29043"},"modified":"2018-10-24T16:45:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T11:15:30","slug":"contaminants-making-their-way-into-food-contact-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/contaminants-making-their-way-into-food-contact-items\/","title":{"rendered":"Contaminants making their way into food-contact items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Contaminants making their way into food-contact items<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A study found that manufacturers are using recycled electrical equipment, containing toxic chemical, as a source of black plastic.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Black plastic is used as food containers and children\u2019s toys which makes it toxic.<\/li>\n<li>Chemicals like are applied to eclectic devices as flame retardants and pigments.<\/li>\n<li>These chemicals remain within the products even when they reach the product\u2019s expiration<\/li>\n<li>The inefficiency to separate black waste before recycling the expired electronic items leads to contamination.<\/li>\n<li>Black plastics in the waste stream cannot be recycled easily.<\/li>\n<li>This poses a threat to human health, marine life and coastal environment.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contaminants making their way into food-contact items News: A study found that manufacturers are using recycled electrical equipment, containing toxic chemical, as a source of black plastic. Important facts: Black plastic is used as food containers and children\u2019s toys which makes it toxic. Chemicals like are applied to eclectic devices as flame retardants and pigments.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/contaminants-making-their-way-into-food-contact-items\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Contaminants making their way into food-contact items<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704955784},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}