食品药品监督管理局(FDA)具有法定责任,以确保与食物接触的包装和生产材料不包含可能损害消费者的有毒化学物质。1 FDA已批准用于食品接触材料(FCM)的九种类型的邻苯二甲酸盐 - 通常在食品制造组件和快餐包装中发现的化学物质,这使塑料更耐用,柔韧性和透明。但有越来越多的证据表明,暴露于邻苯二甲酸盐对人类,尤其是婴儿和儿童的大脑发育极为有害。我们敦促FDA审查这一证据,并使用其现有当局禁止FCM的邻苯二甲酸酯。One way in which the FDA could achieve this goal is by granting the relief requested in the pending objections to FDA's denial of the 2016 food additive petition submitted by Earthjustice and other stakeholders and by reconsidering its denial of the related 2016 citizen petition, which together asked that the FDA revoke food-additive authorizations and prior-sanctioned uses of certain phthalates in FCM.