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80 percent of US packaged foods may contain dangerous chemicals

Roughly 80 percent of all the packaged foods sold within the United States contain chemicals outlawed in other parts of the world, Britain’s Daily Mail reports. Six common food additives found in an estimated 8-out-of-10  products sold in American stores are banned outside of the US,  the Mail claims, putting millions of Americans at risk of  consuming chemicals considered too dangerous for humans in other  countries. Grocery shop items including best-selling soft-drinks and cereal  sold in the US contain additives such as brominated vegetable  oil, olestra and others that have been banned in the European  Union and elsewhere. The Daily… View Article