alt Hacker NewsGoing by the lower limit of 20,000 ng/kg, a 70kg person has a limit of 1,400,000 ng/day for DEHP and 70MM ng/day DEHT.
So am I reading this right you're probably an order of magnitude below the 'safe' limit even if you subsist solely off of RXBars and Sweetgreen? Which is not so far from me at one point in my 30s...
I didn't expect to open this chart and feel _better_ about my plastic consumption, maybe I'm just misunderstanding the chart. It seems even if the limits are 10x too high, you're still probably fine.
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There is an option to view the total daily recommendations, and many of the tested-for items do not have one. So, what is OK for those?
But yes, eating even a pound of the 100th percentile food daily seems to have well below the recommended amounts. So - update the recommendations?
The "report" tab on the website shows which items are above federal recommended limits. The vast majority of tested items are within the limits. So yes, if you're only concerned with what the federal government considers safe, the action item is "probably nothing". But the report page also brings up a lot of good reasons to doubt that the federal limits are sufficient.