Kellogg's Cereal Recall: Health Risks from Packaging?

[JBeukema]

A substance that leached out of cereal packaging and sickened consumers, spurring Kellogg's recall of 28 million boxes of Froot Loops, Apple Jacks and other popular children's cereals, has been identified as a petroleum-based compound that appears to be a breakdown product of chemicals used in the cereal box liners. This compound, methylnaphthalene (methyl-NAP-tha-lene), has been the subject of major, on-going government and oil industry testing and information-gathering initiatives to identify potential safety issues and fill basic data gaps, according to an Environmental Working Group (EWG) analysis of the scientific literature. Kellogg's has not publicly identified the chemical but provided the information to EWG in response to our inquiries.

http://www.ewg.org/health-risks-from-packaging?

 

[Tank]

This sucks, Stay away from plastic.

 

[froggy]

Scope mouthwash recall also.
There have been no illnesses reported from the Scope recall. As the Consumer Product Safety Commission says, the mouthwash contains ethyl alcohol and can be dangerous to children if ingested. Some bottles did not have a properly functioning child-resistant cap, and they also did not carry the required statement “This Package for Households Without Young children.”

 

[JBeukema]

I thought it was common knowledge that mouthwash, unless otherwise specified, contained alcohol?

What's next, stickers telling you not to grab a moving chainsaw blade...

 

[editec]

Things like these are why we need an effective FDA.