![]() Is this a lot? That depends on how many boxes of macaroni and cheese you eat per sitting and over time and what other exposures you may have to phthalates. What's even more distressing was that the average level of phthalates in macaroni and cheese powder (940 parts per billion measured in the fat and 106 parts per billion calculated in the product) was about twice the levels in processed cheese and four times the levels in natural cheese. Rather than simply eat the cheese, VITO tested all of these products and found significant levels of phthalates in all but one of the products. They then shipped this whole cheese-heavy shopping haul in its original packaging to VITO (the Flemish Institute for Technological Research), an independent laboratory in Belgium. They bought 30 cheese product items from retail stores in the United States, including 10 different varieties of macaroni and cheese with dry cheese powder, five different types of sliced processed cheeses, and 15 varieties of natural cheese such as hard, shredded, string and cottage. ![]() It turns out that mac and cheese, in the words of Britney Spears, is "not that innocent." Based on some testing done by the Coalition for Safer Food Processing and Packaging, if you are eating the cheese powder for macaroni and cheese, you may be eating phthalates. What the phthalates?! I did not order that with my mac and cheese.
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