Major Restaurant Chains Commit to Eliminating ‘Forever Chemicals’

Laura Reiley, Washington Post Retail & FoodService April 4, 2022

Some of America’s favorite restaurants have just committed to taking something off consumers’ plates.

Restaurant Brands International, which owns Burger King, Tim Hortons and Popeyes, announced plans late Wednesday to phase out these chemicals in its food packaging worldwide by 2025. Chick-fil-A announced a similar commitment Wednesday evening on Twitter to phase out these chemicals in packaging by the end of this summer.

The companies’ embrace of doing more to stamp out chemicals is in response to a just-published investigation by Consumer Reports that detailed how they found toxic chemicals in a majority of the food wrappers and packaging from chain restaurants and grocery stores that they tested.

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