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Pressure growing to remove PFAS from fast food wrappers

A Burger King Whopper in a wrapper, behind left, and a bag of Burger King cookies, left, rest next to a McDonald's Big Mac in a container, behind right, and a bag of McDonald's fries, in Walpole, Mass., Wednesday, April 20, 2022. Environmental and health groups are pushing dozens of fast food companies, supermarkets chains and other retail outlets to remove PFAS from their packaging. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) A Burger King Whopper in a wrapper, left, rests next to a McDonald's Big Mac in a container, in Walpole, Mass., Wednesday, April 20, 2022. Environmental and health groups are pushing dozens of fast food companies, supermarket chains and other retail outlets to remove PFAS from their packaging. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) A McDonald's Big Mac, left, rests in a box next to a bag of McDonald's fries, in Walpole, Mass., Wednesday, April 20, 2022. Environmental and health groups are pushing dozens of fast food companies, supermarkets chains and other retail outlets to remove PFAS from their packaging. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) In this still photo provided by Ethereal Films, Brenda Hampton attends the National PFAS Conference, in Boston, in June 2019. Hampton, a mother and grandmother, who believes tainted water led to her kidney problems, found that PFAS seemed to be in everything, including fast food packaging. Concerned that her children were ingesting the chemicals as they ate french fries and burgers, she joined the fight to get it banned from McDonald's. (Elijah Yetter-Bowman/Ethereal Films via AP)