Commenters Back FDA Petition To Bar PFAS-Containing Plastic Packaging

Two non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and a specialty products maker are backing environmentalists’ petition to the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) that asks FDA to drop its approval of fluorinated polyethylene as a food additive because its use in food packaging allegedly produces PFAS that can migrate to food. “We support the petition submitted by the Environmental Defense Fund [(EDF)] et al. and filed by the FDA . . . that would revoke the approval of fluorinated polyethylene as an indirect...