{"id":10890,"date":"2023-07-22T04:24:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T04:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/?p=10890"},"modified":"2023-07-31T11:24:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T11:24:20","slug":"u-s-fda-denies-petition-on-chemicals-used-in-food-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/22\/u-s-fda-denies-petition-on-chemicals-used-in-food-packaging\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. FDA denies petition on chemicals used in food packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;The U.S. health regulator on Friday denied a petition urging the agency to reconsider its initial denial on a petition seeking a ban of some chemicals used in plastic for food packaging in May last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The citizen petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sought a ban on the use of eight ortho-phthalates and revocation of the prior sanctioned uses for five ortho-phthalates in food based on alleged safety concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ortho-phthalates, more commonly known as phthalates, are chemicals used in plastic products to make it more durable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The FDA currently allows nine phthalates in the production of plastics for food packaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The health regulator said it has reconsidered the petition and its decision to deny the original petition remains unchanged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source : Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;The U.S. health regulator on Friday denied a petition urging the agency to reconsider its initial denial on a petition seeking a ban of some chemicals used in plastic for food packaging in May last year. The citizen petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sought a ban on the use of eight ortho-phthalates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,64],"tags":[364],"class_list":{"0":"post-10890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"category-latest-news","9":"tag-food-packaging"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10892,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10890\/revisions\/10892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}