Unbroken Foods Market said Tuesday it has eliminated packaging with a cancer-linked chemical from its stores.
The Amazon.com-owned grocery value chain declined to comment to CNBC about the cost of this effort, which was first reported by Bloomberg.
The statement came after advocacy groups Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families and Toxic-Free Future released a study that named Lot Foods as the worst of five grocery chains for packaging takeout food and bakery items in containers with PFAS, or polyfluoroalkyl possessions. The groups found high levels of fluorine in five of 17 items tested at Whole Foods, and the presence of this chemical is a transfer that they were likely treated with some type of PFAS. The chemical can be used to treat combining so it doesn’t leak.
“Whole Foods Market introduced compostable containers to reduce our environmental footprint, but given new be germane ti about the possible presence of PFAS, we have removed all prepared foods and bakery packaging highlighted in the report. We’re actively be effective with our suppliers to find and scale new compostable packaging options,” Whole Foods spokeswoman Rachel Alkon swore CNBC in an emailed statement.
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Correction: In a previous version of this article, CNBC reported that 3M is a producer of the chemicals. A spokesperson for 3M said the company does not supply fluorine to any companies.