By Ethan Huff - Health Reporter
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) published a paper recently that exposes a common food preservative for damaging the immune system.
Tertiary butylhydroquinone, or TBHQ, is added to more than 1,250 food products, many of them marketed for children. The latest data shows that it suppresses immunity, which is especially concerning during a global “pandemic.”
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Published on March 24 in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, the study used data from the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Toxicity Forecaster, also known as ToxCast.
Based on this data, EWG concluded that TBHQ damages immunity both in humans and animals.
“The pandemic has focused public and scientific attention on environmental factors that can impact the immune system,” says Olga Naidenko, PhD, EWG’s vice president for science investigations and lead author of the paper.…