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Do You Wrap Food In A Newspaper? It's Harmful

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    • Publish Date: Dec 10 2016 4:24PM
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    • Updated Date: Dec 10 2016 4:24PM
Do You Wrap Food In A Newspaper? It's Harmful
Printing inks contain harmful colours, pigments, binders, additives, and preservatives, besides chemical contaminants

Wrapping food items in newspaper is bad for your health as its ink has multiple bioactive materials with known negative health effects, FSSAI said. 

"Wrapping food in newspapers is an unhealthy practice and the consumption of such food is injurious to health, even if the food has been cooked hygienically," the Food, Safety and Standard Authority of India (FSSAI) said in an advisory. 
 
Harmful chemicals 
"Printing inks may also contain harmful colours, pigments, binders, additives, and preservatives. Besides chemical contaminants, presence of pathogenic micro organisms in used newspapers also poses potential risk to human health," the advisory said. 

The advisory also said that even paper/cardboard boxes made of recycled paper may be contaminated with harmful chemicals like phthalate which can cause digestive problems and also lead to severe toxicity. 

"Older people, teenagers, children and people with compromised vital organs and immune systems are at a greater risk of acquiring cancer-related health complications, if they are exposed to food packed in such material," the advisory warned. 

The advisory comes after Health Minister J.P. Nadda's directions to the food regulatory authority against the practice of wrapping and covering food items in newspapers in India. Speaking in this regard J.P Nadda said: "It has been observed that vendors have been using newspapers in packing and serving food, which is harmful. I urge the public to dissuade the vendors from doing so." 

According to the advisory, the Commissioners of Food Safety of all States/Union Territories will initiate systematic campaigns for generating awareness among all the stakeholders to discourage the use of newspapers for packing, serving and storing food items.
 
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Pragya RUKMINI DEVI PUB. SCHOOL(PITAMPURA)

I have seen many people eating at the street and packing whats left in a newspaper or a plastic bag, which are harmful for them and should be avoided.

Mayank Seth Anandram Jaipuria School

I never eat food items wrapped in a newspaper. But, I have seen many people eating food packed in newspapers. It is very hazardous and everyone should be aware of it and avoid it .

Aditi Sahi D C MODEL SCH PKL-SEC-7

No,I don''t but in some cases I have eaten food wrapped in newspaper like Bhelpuri,Choole kulche and other street foods.

Himanshi Dhawan Saffron Public School

I have seen innumerable people getting a bite of the food wrapped in newspaper. the problem that lies is lack of awareness. It is only now that I came to know that food wrapped in newspaper can be very harmful and can also prove fatal. Awareness should be spread among the people to avoid using newspaper to wrap their food.

Aishwarya Iyer Deens Academy

Yes, in India wrapping food in paper is very common. And although manyknow, nothing is done.

Nishi Upadhyay BHARTI PUBLIC SCHOOL (SWASTHYA VHR)

people still don''t know about it.

Ritvik Baweja BAL BHARTI PUBLIC SCHOOL (PITAM PUR

It''s common to see street food packed in paper bags in India, where people don''t have much knowledge about contamination of food. However, if this practice of serving food wrapped in newspaper is harmful for health and could lead to the formation of harmful toxins, then it should surely be discouraged.

Aadrit Banerjee Apeejay School Salt Lake

I didn''t knew this fact.....often while travelling by train I had consumed food packed in newspaper and here in Bengal it''s a common practice to eat puffed rice, chat and other food items in newspapers. I will surely share this fact with others and be aware from next time.

J.PRIYADHARSHINI REVOOR PADMANABHA MATRIC.HR.SEC.SCHOOL

thanks a lot for this fact I haven''t known it before and I have also eaten food wrapped in newspaper and i have also seen many people eating food items wrapped in newspaper and I will definitely avoid it and insist others too...........

SRIRAM.C Amalorpavam Higher Secondary School - Puducherry

Some people still do know about it we should create awareness among the people

Mythili Iyer Greenwood High

In every street in India, there is someone who is packing food in newspaper. What else can shopkeepers who have roadside stalls use? If they are well off they can use containers. The step the government or FSSAI should do is to exchange newspapers with containers or other things we can use. Then the newspapers can be recycled, no wastage of newspapers and no harmful chemicals in our bodies!

Priya M G NEW BALDWIN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL

The food wraped by newspaper is very common in street food. Most of the people don''t know about the chemicals of the newspaper.Awareness among them must be created . But few street vendors although they know about harmful chemicals of the newspaper they won''t stop selling food items in the newspaper.

Hiya Kilam global indian internatonal school

Good info...

Bhavana Jaison Atomic Energy Central School No 2

Thanks NIE , informative.

C.Elakshme devi Amalorpavam Higher Secondary School - Puducherry

We should avoid eating in roadside shops because they are packing in newspaper.

APARNA.V Amalorpavam Higher Secondary School - Puducherry

Yeah,in roadside shops still they are following this

Afsha Saiyed PADUA HIGH SCHOOL-MANKHURD

Oh ! That''s really informative.

Sharmeen Khan PADUA HIGH SCHOOL-MANKHURD

Street food is often consumed in newspapers or plastic bags. It''d be doubtful to say that we have never eaten something wrapped in newspaper. For we live in a country where street food is the king. However, from now on, i''ll see to it that I take food in plain paper bags instead.

Vishakha Bhalla BOSCO SR.SEC.SCHOOL( PASCHIM VIHAR)

we have to prevent such uses of newspaper in packing food items, which are directly consumed by people, for this we have to stay aware.

Kevin Jacob Gilbert CHAVARA INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY

We should avoid roadside shops because they cover most of the food with newspapers when we take it.

MIHIR KHULBE DEEP MEMORIAL PUBLIC SCH(RAMPRASTHA

Wrapping food items in newspaper is very dangerous. So we should avoid wrapping food items in newspaper even in plastic bags or plastic papers.

Akanksha BHAWAN VIDYALAYA SCH PKL SEC15

Yes, I have seen many time people wrap food in news paper which very harmful . Because newspaper contain ink which have many harmful chemicals which can cause many diseases . We should avoid wrapping food in newspaper.

Akanksha BHAWAN VIDYALAYA SCH PKL SEC15

Yes, I have seen many time people wrap food in news paper which very harmful . Because newspaper contain ink which have many harmful chemicals which can cause many diseases . We should avoid wrapping food in newspaper.

RICHEAL MONTEIRO Other

I don''t eat food wrapped in newspapers but there are many people around who continue this practice. They just take the food and wrap it in newspapers to eat it afterwards.

Raeka Kaur Gulati Sri Venkateshwar International School, Sector 18,

Seriously, we must stop the street food covered by newspapers. Even don''t buy food covered by plain paper as we don''t know what could have contaminated it. Actually, don''t even try to buy street food until you are craving for it. Well, that is what I would like to recommend to everyone in this case. And thumbs up to you, Mr. J.P Nadda, for this lovely plan to almost try to ban the usage of newspaper food wrapping.

Raeka Kaur Gulati Sri Venkateshwar International School, Sector 18,

Seriously, we must stop the street food covered by newspapers. Even don''t buy food covered by plain paper as we don''t know what could have contaminated it. Actually, don''t even try to buy street food until you are craving for it. Well, that is what I would like to recommend to everyone in this case. And thumbs up to you, Mr. J.P Nadda, for this lovely plan to almost try to ban the usage of newspaper food wrapping.

Raeka Kaur Gulati Sri Venkateshwar International School, Sector 18,

Seriously, we must stop the street food covered by newspapers. Even don''t buy food covered by plain paper as we don''t know what could have contaminated it. Actually, don''t even try to buy street food until you are craving for it. Well, that is what I would like to recommend to everyone in this case. And thumbs up to you, Mr. J.P Nadda, for this lovely plan to almost try to ban the usage of newspaper food wrapping.

Raeka Kaur Gulati Sri Venkateshwar International School, Sector 18,

Seriously, we must stop the street food covered by newspapers. Even don''t buy food covered by plain paper as we don''t know what could have contaminated it. Actually, don''t even try to buy street food until you are craving for it. Well, that is what I would like to recommend to everyone in this case. And thumbs up to you, Mr. J.P Nadda, for this lovely plan to almost try to ban the usage of newspaper food wrapping.

simra fathima FLORENCE PUBLIC SCH.- RT NAGAR

Many hotels give food wrapped in paper. They should not use paper and instead have proper boxes for it. Paper can be used in some other way, not for wrapping paper. I have seen many people consume paper which gets stuck to the food that is wrapped. This can be harmful. Government should make people aware of it and ban the use of paper in hotels for wrapping food.

SNEHA - R Kulapati munshi bhavan's vidhya mandir

More and more people have to be educated about this as common people don''t know about the hazards of wrapping food items in plastic bags.Many campaigns have to be organised by the government to eradicate this practice.

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