Carcinogen worries stick to food packaging

[snopes]

The next time you make some microwave popcorn or cook a frozen pizza, consider this: The packaging of many of these products contains a chemical that the Environmental Protection Agency considers potentially carcinogenic and wants businesses to voluntarily stop using by 2015.

Studies show that this chemical -- perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA -- is present in 98% of Americans' blood and 100% of newborns. It doesn't break down and thus accumulates in the system over time.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...6975509.column

[Towknie]

"I don't know about you," he added, "but I don't like chemicals building up in my blood,

Yeah, like that pesky dihydrogen monoxide

[lord_feldon]

I hear the connotation police coming to get you, Towknie.