{"id":10816,"date":"2026-03-05T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/?p=10816"},"modified":"2026-03-05T12:07:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:07:02","slug":"plastic-kitchenware-and-toxic-chemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/plastic-kitchenware-and-toxic-chemicals\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic Kitchenware and Toxic Chemicals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/files\/2026\/03\/earth_com-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"622\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/files\/2026\/03\/earth_com-image-1024x622.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/files\/2026\/03\/earth_com-image-1024x622.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/files\/2026\/03\/earth_com-image-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/files\/2026\/03\/earth_com-image-768x466.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/files\/2026\/03\/earth_com-image.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about the research of Dr. Heather Stapleton, DUSRC Director and Project 1 researcher, on the potential risks of using plastic utensils and food packaging. More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/plastic-kitchen-utensils-may-leach-toxic-chemicals-in-food-health-concerns\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/plastic-kitchen-utensils-may-leach-toxic-chemicals-in-food-health-concerns\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image credit:<\/strong> earth.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn more about the research of Dr. Heather Stapleton, DUSRC Director and Project 1 researcher, on the potential risks of using plastic utensils and food packaging. More here. Image credit: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3905,"featured_media":10817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[262,269,388],"class_list":{"0":"post-10816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-pfas","9":"tag-project-1","10":"tag-project-1-2022-2027","11":"czr-hentry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3905"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10816"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10823,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10816\/revisions\/10823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/superfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}