🍗Waste incl. #plastics are used to smoke food. New study highlights that this process releases various very toxic chemicals that contaminate the smoked food incl. PAHs (eg benzo[a]pyrene), dioxins, PCBs & PCDD/Fs along a contamination gradient: Wood < PE < PS < PVC.
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Traditional food smoking in Vietnam often uses biomass fuels, but the incidental inclusion of plastics can generate toxic pollutants. This study evaluated the effects of polyethylene (PE), polystyrene...