Pizza Boxes Can Cause Cancer

During his State of the Union address, President Obama called for a national priority to cure cancer. We can disagree as whether or not Joe Biden is the guy to get it done but the time may be right. NBC News says leading cancer researchers from the American Cancer Society, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, the American Association for Cancer Research all say this is “the golden era of cancer research”.

Apparently one of the first places to start in this new effort might be with the pizza delivery guy. The Food and Drug Administration says our pizza boxes may be giving us the cancer and so the FDA has decided to ban three kinds of chemicals called perfluoroalkyl ethyls. (per-floor-oh-al-kill ethels)

New York magazine’s Grub Street says these are a class of “exceptionally common chemicals used in water- and grease-proof pizza boxes and other food packaging.”