The Claim
Infants, toddlers, and young children have higher dietary exposure to technical hexane residues than estimated in the 1996 safety assessment due to higher food intake per body weight and greater consumption of processed foods.
What the research says
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Children eat more food relative to their body weight and consume more processed foods than adults, leading to higher levels of technical hexane residues in their diets than previously estimated in 1996.
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Infants, toddlers, and young children may have higher dietary exposure to technical hexane residues than previously estimated by the 1996 safety assessment, due to higher food intake per body weight and consumption patterns of processed foods.
Children eat more food relative to their body size than adults, and they consume more processed foods that may contain traces of hexane from oil extraction. This leads to greater amounts of hexane entering their bodies through food.
What the research says
1 studyKids eat more food for their size than adults, and many snacks and oils they eat are made with a chemical called hexane. The study says we didn’t realize before how much of that chemical might be left in their food, so they might be getting more than we thought.
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