With all this talk of PFAS “forever chemicals” found inside butter wrappers, you may be asking yourself, “Where is the safest butter?” You’ve already heard that Kerrygold was sued in Superior Court after claiming to have “Pure Irish butter” while also packaging their products in contact wraps containing toxic PFAS “forever chemicals.” So which butter brands have indications of PFAS in their butter wrappers and which ones do not? Mamavation sent 32 butter wrappers from 22 butter brands off to an EPA-certified laboratory to answer your questions. You’ve trusted Mamavation to bring you other consumer studies like safest cookware sans PFAS or nanoparticles, the best organic mattresses, the best air purifiers, and the best water filters to filter PFAS, now join us for a consumer study on indications of PFAS “forever chemicals” within butter wrappers.
Disclosure: This consumer study is released in partnership with Environmental Health News. Scientific reviews were performed by (1) Terrence Collins, Teresa Heinz Professor of Green Chemistry & Director of the Institute for Green Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, (2) Linda S. Birnbaum, Scientist Emeritus and Former Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and National Toxicology Program & Adjunct Professor at Duke University, North Carolina University, & Yale University, (3) Pete Myers, Chief Scientist at Environmental Health Sciences, Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University, and Co-Author of Our Stolen Future, & (4) Scott Belcher, Associate Professor with the Center for Environmental & Health Effects of PFAS at North Carolina State University. This post was medically reviewed by Sondra Strand, RN, BSN, PHN. Donations were provided by Environmental Health News and Mamavation community members. Mamavation has only “spot-checked” the industry and thus we cannot make predictions about brands and products that we have not tested. Products and manufacturing aides can change without notice so buyer beware. This post contains affiliate links, with some to Amazon, which means Mamavation will receive a portion of those sales and we will use that to pay ourselves back for the testing. You can also give a tax-deductible donation to our consumer studies here through Environmental Health Sciences. Click “yes” when asked if the gift is in honor of someone and type “Mamavation.” Thank you!
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Mamavation’s Lab Finds Indications of PFAS “Forever Chemicals” Inside Butter Wrappers
Mamavation’s laboratory found indications of PFAS “forever chemicals” inside popular butter wrappers after sending 32 butter wrappers off to our EPA-certified lab. PFAS “forever chemicals” are per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances used for many decades as stain-resistant, oil-resistant, grease-resistant, & water-resistant chemicals in commerce. PFAS is found in many areas of our lives with some examples being makeup, drinking water, & dental floss. These chemicals are linked to serious health effects. Because they are so toxic, Mamavation has commissioned our own consumer studies on indications of PFAS in order to make consumer recommendations for butter brands that have PFAS-free grease-resistant wrappers.
For this consumer study, Mamavation sent 32 different butter wrappers from 22 brands off to an EPA-certified laboratory looking for indications of toxic PFAS “forever chemicals.”
Here’s what our EPA-certified laboratory found inside the food wrappers:
- Sixteen of the 32 wrappers our EPA-certified laboratory tested (50%) had indications of toxic PFAS “forever chemicals.”
- Only 8 brands out of 22 had indications of PFAS in their butter wrappers; 22 (63%) did not.
- Ranges of total fluorine reported by the lab varied from 11 to 112 parts per million (ppm).
- For each brand that tested positively for PFAS presence, we tested that brand at least twice see how consistent the issues were.
Linda S. Birnbaum, Scientist Emeritus and Former Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and National Toxicology Program & Adjunct Professor at Duke University, North Carolina University, & Yale University, said, “It’s disappointing to see indications of PFAS in butter wrappers. In order to protect the public, PFAS should not be present in food packaging like butter wrappers. This is an important issue to tackle in the future in order to protect pregnant women and children from the potential pitfalls of PFAS. I highly recommend the industry fix this problem as soon as possible.”
Human Health Impacts of PFAS “Forever Chemicals”
PFAS “forever chemicals” are problematic to human health and the environment. They are considered ubiquitous, persistent, and toxic. Many of these chemicals can last for years or decades in our bodies. Therefore, it’s imperative to reduce the amount of PFAS you are exposed to from food like butter, water, and consumer products.
PFAS like PFOA and PFOS have been linked to many health risks and bad health outcomes. When considering food packaging you are exposed to daily or even often, it’s important to be mindful of the health impacts of PFAS exposure:
- Reduction in immunity
- Reduced vaccination response
- Increased risk of allergies & asthma in young children
- Affected growth, learning, and behavior of infants and older children
- Increase to high cholesterol levels
- Metabolic diseases like obesity & diabetes
- Cardiovascular disease
- Lowered a woman’s chance of getting pregnant
- Lowered male fertility
- Increased risk of kidney & testicular cancers
- Causes endocrine disruption
- Disrupted normal thyroid function
It’s also very clear based on biomonitoring evidence from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) that PFAS are in essentially all Americans. Therefore, these impacts are spread nationwide. However, it’s important to avoid PFAS as much as possible because of the potential health and environmental impacts.
Can PFAS get into your Butter From the Packaging?
The test we use burns the butter wrappers and the gas they emit is analyzed to allow for a determination of total PFAS. If PFAS “forever chemicals” are in butter wrappers, can these chemicals get into your butter? The short answer is that prudence requires that we assume they can and it is chemically reasonable to assume they do. Tests were also done on toxic fast food wrappers, which shows the presence of fluorinated chemicals.
There’s also quite a diversity in butter food packaging. Most of the options we found were either based on aluminum or wood cellulose with or without a coating. What is inside that coating? We don’t know. We took a look at several different butter wrapper manufacturers online to get a glimpse of the options available to butter brands.
- Brands like Alstrom claim to have fluoro-free butter wrappers made from a proprietary process that “achieves a 100% cellulose product with no coating, which is certified by OK Compost Home and Industrial (EN13432).”
- Another brand Bomarko offers “paper/foil laminated products as well as private labeled butter and margarine packaging in both grease-proof and waxed structures as well as paper/foil laminated structures for portioned single serve reddies, chips, continentals, quarter-pound sticks, and pound blocks.” This manufacturer makes no mention of using fluoro-free paper.
- We also found Safepack that makes aluminum foil along with special polymers to protect butter from chemical spoilage and rancidity caused by oxygen, light, heat, & moisture. This brand also doesn’t mention any fluoro-free products.
- And finally, Quantum Packaging reported quite an array of different aluminum options like
- aluminum-wax-paper,
- aluminum-paraffin-paper,
- aluminum-polyethylene-paper, or
- aluminum-polyethylene-paper-polyethylene.
Terrence Collins, Teresa Heinz Professor of Green Chemistry & Director of the Institute for Green Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University explains the relevance to butter wrappers in more detail.
“The US Food and Drug Administration has known for decades that PFAS compounds in food wraps can migrate into our food. The general notion that chemicals, like most of the PFAS family, that can move around in the environment, that bioconcentrate in living things, and that Nature cannot easily destroy will find a way to cause health or environmental trouble because the chemistry of the ecosphere is so complex. This was clearly articulated over two decades ago. Yet here we are in 2023 with Mamavation being able to easily find that the everyday food product, butter, is still being put in close contact with PFAS contaminated wraps by many of the suppliers Mamavation tested. Those 8 out of 22 butter brands still using PFAS found by Mamavation in their wraps should come to terms with the serious PFAS health threats, plainly listed above by Mamavation, and get rid of PFAS compounds altogether in every aspect of their business. I also recommend that butter companies should strive to be able to label their products as “PFAS-Free” when they have done the appropriate homework.” As a more general comment, the only effective way to deal with the expanding environment, human contamination, and deadly toxic issues is to simply stop making most if not all PFAS compounds.”
Will PFAS “Forever Chemicals” Disrupt The Dairy Industry? — The Hangover of Biosolids.
Finding PFAS in butter wrappers is going to be an easy fix for a brand compared to PFAS inside the dairy product itself. PFAS “forever chemicals” are a hot topic of concern among farmers in general. This is because legacy farming practices are now bankrupting farms decades later.
A farming practice of spreading PFAS-contaminated sewage sludge (“biosolids”) on the land as fertilizer is coming back to bite farmers. Biosolids from sewage treatment contain various types of PFAS “forever chemicals”. The chemicals and microbes in our waste products encounter massive mixed bacterial colonies called “activated sludge” when they reach the treatment plants. The bacteria consume the microbes and chemicals to grow into what is meant to be “safe” organic matter that can deliver high-quality fertilizer.
But the logic breaks down when the activated sludge cannot decompose toxic chemicals—many chemicals that are ecotoxic or a threat to our health, such as PFAS compounds, contaminate the sludge and when its spread on farmland ends up contaminating our food supply. Persistent chemicals are such because Nature cannot break them down fast enough or at all. The sludge bacteria use the same (or similar) enzymes to decompose sewerage compounds that are found across much of aerobic life, including inside humans.
The chemicals often get past our own decomposing enzymes to find their way into our number one and two waste products. At the sewage plants, not only is the rapidly growing activated sludge and future “potential” fertilizer contaminated, but so is the water that is released after treatment from the plants into rivers, lakes, and oceans.
Persistent and forever chemicals that the chemical enterprise has developed progressively over the last century have overwhelmed our technologies for cleaning wastewater. These “forever chemicals” can come from many industries like printing presses or chrome plating facilities, lint from waterproof clothing, waterproof makeup, dental floss, soft contact lenses, Teflon pans, etc.
One farmer by the name of Fred Stone in 2016 found that PFAS chemicals were contaminating his farmland from sewage plant fertilizer the hard way after voluntarily testing his dairy milk and finding PFAS in levels as high as 1,470 parts per trillion (ppt), far above what is considered safe for drinking water.
“The toxic chemicals that I never used and had never even known about until two years ago contaminated my cows—which I really take exception to—and ruined my farming operation and hurt my family,” he told reporters at a press conference in 2019.
What is sewage sludge? It is a byproduct of the water treatment process. Basically, this is what is left over when water is separated from human and industrial waste from the sewers. Two states have stepped up the testing of sludge. Regulators in each state have communicated that contamination was found in all tested samples. Other states have rejected residents and environmental groups’ pleas for testing of sludge and soil for these chemicals.
Vice has also covered this topic recently and we recommend watching this video to understand the scale of the problem.
Pete Myers, Chief Scientist at Environmental Health Sciences, Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University, and Co-Author of Our Stolen Future, added “The long-term and ubiquitous practice of using sewage sludge to fertilize fields must be stopped until technologies become available that remove toxic contaminants like PFAS from the waste waters flowing into the sewage treatment plants. It’s a time bomb threatening our farmers that will grow vastly more damaging than any possible value that the “free” fertilizer … read “toxic sludge”… adds to the farm economy.”
New State PFAS Laws Protecting Some Americans
There is good and bad news on the horizon in terms of how laws are protecting citizens from PFAS. The good news is certain states are taking action, This will benefit not only those states but also other parts of the country as understanding of the dangers spreads. The bad news is it’s slow-moving and some of the new laws don’t really have the teeth required to adequately punish or fine brands breaking the new laws.
According to Safer States, a non-profit organization that advocates and tracks issues in different states pertaining to toxic chemicals. Several states have enacted phase-outs of PFAS in food packaging and several other categories. These new regulations from several states are creating a patchwork of laws around the country that are pressuring companies to do more testing and due diligence to keep your family safer. Every state that enacts restrictions has the potential of making the entire country safer if brands decide to roll out changes nationwide instead of state by state.
Here are some important movements.
Food Packaging:
- Twelve states including CA, CO, CT, HI, ME, MD, MN, NY, OR, RI, VT, and WA have enacted phase-outs of PFAS in food packaging.
- California’s new regulations aim to create PFAS-free packaging, but these regulatory requirements allow fluorine up to 100 ppm. Unfortunately, California is not enforcing this law. Mamavation has alerted District Attorneys in two counties (Los Angeles & Ventura) of these issues thus far with laboratory proof and receipts of where they were purchased. No action has been taken thus far. So this new law has had quite a bumpy start.
Water Limits:
- Many states have begun the process of regulating PFAS in drinking water and have adopted enforceable standards or Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs) for PFAS in their state.
- States with enforceable drinking water standards include ME, MA, MI, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT, and WI. Both DE and VA are in the process of establishing enforceable drinking water standards.
- FL is on track to adopt its own standards if the EPA has not finalized its standards for PFAS in drinking water by 2025.
- Other states have adopted guidance levels, notification levels, and/or health advisories for PFAS in drinking water. These states include AK, CA, CO, CT, IL, MD, MN, NC, NM, OH, OR, and WA.
- In the meantime, we recommend you purchase one of the water filters that were independently shown to filter PFAS.
Textiles:
- States are taking action to eliminate PFAS in carpets, rugs, apparel, textile furnishings, upholstered furniture, fabric treatments and/or other textiles, including California, Colorado, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, New York, Vermont, & Washington.
- Mamavation has tested activewear & yoga pants and sports bras to help consumers make educated decisions about their consumer choices before these laws take effect.
Cosmetics:
- States are taking action to eliminate PFAS chemicals in cosmetics, including California, Colorado, Maryland, Minnesota, & Washington
- Mamavation has tested over 100+ green beauty makeup products to help consumers make educated decisions about indications of PFAS and makeup before these laws take effect.
Other Categories of Products Mamavation Has Tested for Indications of PFAS “Forever Chemicals”
Before we launch into the raw data from our EPA-certified lab, we wanted to remind you about all the other studies we have done on indications of PFAS “forever chemicals” inside the food and consumer products you bring inside your home.
- Soft Contact Lenses
- Green Beauty Makeup
- Dental Floss
- Toilet Paper
- Period Underwear
- Tampons
- Sanitary Pads, Pantiliners, & Incontinence Pads
- Powdered Electrolytes
- Butter Wrappers
- Pasta & Tomato Sauces
- Nut Butters (Peanut butter, etc.)
- Cooking Oils (olive oil, almond oil, canola oil, etc)
- Ketchup
- Activewear (Yoga Pants)
- Sports Bras
- Parchment Paper
- Cupcake Liners
- Plastic-Free Straws
- Fast Food Packaging
- Children’s Probiotics
- Kids’ Backpacks
- Baby Strollers
Mamavation’s Raw Data on Butter Wrappers Sold to American Consumers & Tested for Indications of PFAS “Forever Chemicals”
Butter wrappers were purchased in greater Los Angeles, California, and also donated from community members in states like Texas, Massachusetts, Arizona, Virginia, Nevada, & New York between January and June 2023. Donated butter wrappers from community members were placed in ziplock bags (which we know from prior testing are non-detect for fluorine) and shipped to Mamavation in greater Los Angeles. Mamavation then took pictures of the butter wrappers and shipped them directly to the lab.
Testing: Mamavation’s EPA-certified laboratory uses marker testing to identify the potential presence of PFAS “forever chemicals” in butter wrappers. Organic fluorine is a marker for PFAS because all PFAS chemicals are carbon-based compounds that contain fluorine. The specific lab method used to test for total fluorine was the Determination of Total Fluorine by Oxygen Flask Combustion and Ion-Selective Electrode. If total fluorine was observed at a detection level of 10 ppm, the lab did the Determination of free Fluoride Ion in the product by Ion-Selective Electrode and then subtracted that from the Total Fluorine to determine the amount of organic fluorine. This marker testing is likely to show the presence of PFAS. Organic fluorine can also capture other fluoropolymers, pharmaceuticals, and common hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants, such as 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (commonly known as R-134a) and 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (commonly known as HFO-1234yf), which are also PFAS. None of which you want around your food!
Scott Belcher, Ph.D. & Associate Professor with the Center for Environmental & Health Effects of PFAS at North Carolina State University says “fluoropolymers, such as polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) or Teflon®, are extremely common forms of PFAS that can be contributing to the organic fluorine found in butter. Methods used for detecting individual PFAS, such as PFOA or GenX, cannot directly identify PTFE. However, the analysis of total organic fluorine does account for all PFAS contaminants in butter wrappers, including PTFE. Therefore, this method of testing serves as a good ‘spot-check’ of consumer products.”
Not Our Favorite Butter Wrappers
These butter wrappers were sent to an EPA-certified laboratory and came back with detections of organic fluorine, which is a marker for PFAS “forever chemicals” inside the packaging.
- HEB Organic Salted Sweet Cream Butter — 18 parts per million (ppm) organic fluorine, 2nd product 16 ppm
- Kate’s Pure & Simple Sea Salt Butter — 31 parts per million (ppm) organic fluorine, 2nd product non-detect
- Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter Unsalted Wrapper — 61 ppm organic fluorine (tested after lawsuit)
- Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter Salted Wrapper — 122 ppm organic fluorine (tested after lawsuit)
- Kerrygold Unsalted Pure Irish Butter Paper Wrapper — 11 ppm organic fluorine (paper wrapper new packaging)
- Kirkland Grass-fed Salted Butter Wrapper — 58 ppm, 2nd product 15 ppm organic fluorine
- Land O’Lakes Salted Butter Flavor Protect Wrapper — 23 ppm [updated product: Aug 2023]
- Maple Hill Organic 100% Grassfed Unsalted Butter — 69 ppm, 2nd product 15 ppm organic fluorine
- Miyokos European Style Cultured Vegan Butter w/ Hint of Sea Salt — 12 ppm organic fluorine, 2nd product different lot non-detect
- Organic Valley Sweet Cream Salted Butter Wrapper — 35 ppm, 2nd product 16 ppm organic fluorine, 3rd product 14 ppm
- Wegmans Organic Unsalted Sweet Cream Butter wrapper — 15 ppm organic fluorine, 2nd product different lot 16 ppm.
Better Butter Wrappers
This category represents butter wrappers that were sent to an EPA-certified laboratory. All came back with non-detect results. However, these brands are not USDA organic, so the chances of exposure to toxic pesticides or other types of hazardous chemicals are still present.
- Cabot Natural Creamery Salted Butter Wrapper
- Grassland Salted Sweet Cream Butter
- Nellie’s Free Range Slow Churned Butter Sea Salted from Grassfed Cows
- Raw Farm Raw Butter from Grass-Grazed Cows Lightly Salted
- Sprouts Salted Grade AA Butter
- Truly Grassfed Natural Creamy Butter Salted Wrapper
- Vital Farms Sea Salted Butter
Best Butter Wrappers
This category represents butter wrappers that were sent to an EPA-certified laboratory and came back with non-detect results. They are also USDA organic brands.
- 365 Whole Foods Market Organic Salted Butter Pasture-Raised
- Clover Sonoma Organic Salted Butter Wrapper
- Horizon Organic Salted Organic Butter From Pasture-Raised Cows
- Kirkland (Costco) Organic Salted Butter [Updated product: Aug 2023]
- Nature’s Promise (Stop & Shop) Salted Organic Sweet Cream Butter
- O Organics Organic Salted Sweet Cream Butter
- Straus Family Creamery Organic European Style Lighted Salted Organic Butter
- Trader Joes Organic Salted Butter
Best (& Worst) Safe Non Toxic Food Processors & Food Choppers
I’m a huge Miyokos fan, so I was super disappointed to see that this testing showed PFAS in their wrappers. I contacted their customer service and here was their response: “We too have seen the article reporting findings of PFAS markers in a number of butter wrappers on the market and we understand it may have caused you some concern. We take PFAS seriously and their impact on the environment and human health. We cannot speak to the testing methods or handling procedures of the lab used in that report, but our packaging supplier has reassured us of their raw material selection, manufacturing, and testing processes. They have also confirmed that our wrappers are compliant with all federal and state laws and regulations concerning PFAS, including the recent California Safer Food Packaging and Cookware Act, which effectively bans PFAS.”
So, are the unsalted version of the butters okay too then?
ie: costco unsalted or whole foods unsalted?
Good article as I’ve just come upon your comprehensive site and one of the things I’ve always wondered about was the butter-wrappers and dairy containers!
I’ve been using the Vital Farms butter for about a year and found it to be about the ONLY UNsalted butter that does not contain acetic acid/flavorings/cultures, etc., as unsalted butter has always been sweet cream ONLY with no additives of any kind!
i don’t believe vital farms butter is grass-fed..
does that indicate cafo farming practices?
i think everyone who is interested in safe food would benefit from watching KISS THE GROUND”..amazing doc re: REGENERATIVE FARMING!
What about Plugra??
Has Kerry Gold corrected the problem now in 2024 with their wrapper?
Are the PFAs found in the paper wrappers also found in the plastic tubs?
Why is Costco’s Kirkland brand listed on both the bad list and the good list in this report?
I too would like to know. I have been using the Kerry Gold tubs .
I think the difference is the grass fed version (green wrapper) has the pfas and the organic salted does not, which is disheartening as I buy the green wrapper consistently
For the butter wrappers that are tested and deemed “safe,” what about the quality of the actual butter? I thought some of these brands are not ideal because they are not practicing holistic pasture raising, feeding, etc. Im trying to find butter from cows that are not fed GMOs/ grains, hormones, antibiotics and also come in toxic free wrappers.
That is a good question, b. I’m wondering about the actual butter now myself.
So discouraging to read. We used Kerrygold butter for years and then switched to Kirkland Grassfed because it was a little less expensive. Would prefer butter from grass fed cows so not sure what to do now since we go through a lot of butter in our house so always buy from Costco. 😕
Why is there such massive ppm swing between some of your first and second test numbers?
Can you test challenge butter and other common walmart brands. Walmart is literally it in my area.
Will you be testing any additional butter wrapper brands?
I would be more than happy to provide samples in any form that works best.
– Trader Joe’s Organic butter
– Rumiano Organic butter
– Whole Foods 365 Brand butter
Thank you.
I think Trader Joes and whole foods are already tested and on this list.
the post raises awareness about the presence of PFAS “forever chemicals” in butter wrappers and calls for the industry to address this issue to protect consumers from potential health risks associated with PFAS exposure.
What ones r pasture raised and contain olive oil & r unsalted. Thanks
This article was written by an ai bot so please take it with a grain of salt.
Something’s wrong. Every butter that’s supposed to be clean is not available in Amazon when you click on it.
No, it wasn’t.
No Notch, this wasn’t written by a bot. It was written by Leah Segedie, owner of mamavation.com. All items were tested in labs.
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Hello! Thank you for the article. When were these wrappers tested? I’m having trouble finding the date. Thank you!
Hi,
Any chance to test non salted butter? The only ones that are okay to buy are all salted. I use unsalted butter for baking and would love to have a buying guide for unsalted butter. I’d be happy to contribute samples if need be!
I had no idea this was thing! U still didn’t tell us what butter wrappers are safe! Is there a brand of butter that has safe wrappers?
Read to the bottom of the article, the best brands are listed there.
Thank you. Though I am very grateful for their work, we would all benefit if they improved the organization of these articles. Putting the most important information at the end of a very long piece with lots of other links and references throughout will frustrate many, especially if it’s being used on short notice.
I thought the same, Darwin.
Yes she did. It’s under best butter wrappers above 🙄
Thank you!!! Can I send you some wrappers for butter that are more East Coast based?
Did you test any ALDI brands?
I am also curious about this. I have been buying Aldi brand butter for years …
I would also like to know about Aldi butter wrappers!
We have an Amish store where they make their own butter. Would you be interested in testing their wrappers?
I would be interested in knowing that as well.
Could I have a list of verifiable sources for this article?
Was Land O Lakes tested at all?
Yes! Why wasn’t Land o lakes included?
Why buy land o lakes? It is a factory cow n so their milk is full of poisons from their feed! Only pasture raised is safe to eat.
Petition your local governor and congressmen for a bill to ban their use in food packaging.
It would be fantastic if other states adopted restrictions on PFAS in food packaging just like California, Washington, & New York. However, the levels I’m finding would be acceptable in those states because they are mostly under 100 ppm fluorine. It would only be Kerrygold that would have issues. So we need laws, and we ned them to be a little bit stricter…and have consequences.
What about unsalted butter in wrappers?
Also… any issues with salted and/or unsalted soft butter In tubs?
The goverment should be ashamed for not monitoring this they have let American people down poisoning all Americans they should be policing theses company’s.
FDA APPROVED!!!…..SCUMBAGS
The government doesn’t care about the health of the American citizens.
Why did you not list Kirkland Salted or Unsalted butter? You intentionally left those out to make people think that all Kirkland’s butter was bad.
Mamavation = non-valid information / just another clickbait site. I recommend everyone block mamavation from your news feeds. Whenever an informational site intentiinally does something misleading like this, BLOCK IT! This is how misinformation is spread. Intentional misinformation or information manipulation posted online should be criminalized. It’s not 1st ammendment rights, it’s dangerous.
Let me get this straight — This is misinformation because no one donated the butter wrappers you wanted? You’re hilarious. I enjoyed the laugh.
So, let me get this straight, Kirkland was ONLY willing to donate one of their butter selections. But, they were unwilling to donate any other butters from their generic Kirkland brand labels? Got it!
We did not receive donations from brands. We received donations from community members when they told us what butter wrappers they wanted tested and donated the product.
Free speech and Free Will. You can choose to ignore it and ingest whatever you want and deal with the repercussion. Take it or leave it, or check into the resources for yourself. Which is recommended to not just accept one view
I agree. I knew once I saw they were talking about “butter” like it’s not one of the least healthy foods. Butter is dangerous fools. Who cares about the wrapper?
We’ve been lied to about fats. First they told us we should eat a low fat diet. False! Our body needs the right kind of fats and animal fats, like butter, are the very best for us. For plant based fats it’s cold pressed coconut oil and avocado oil.
You are so misinformed! Butter from grass fed cows is a very healthy fat. The government has lied to you about butter and so many other things as well. FDA is completely corrupt and untrustworthy
They tested butter wrappers. One happened to be the Kirkland brand that you are choosing to make assumptions over because they didn’t study all the different kinds of butter produced under the same brand. In some cases (not this study) your logic is valid. The problem in your logic or skepticism is that you are making the assumption they don’t use the same wrappers and ink for all there butter forms. My assumption is they do since most major brands use the same packaging facilities and materials for all like products because it’s a time and money saving option and cuts their overall overhead and cost.
Sometimes when you go looking for a fight you narrow your own field of vision. Let’s also not forget that this isn’t political, this is butter, and you’re “butter” then this. Lol
They did list Kirkland salted butter
If you would have looked closer, they did list Kirkland butter
For medical/health reasons I purchase organic unsalted butter. I was buying Kerrygold Unsalted—until reading this. However, in your section at the end, listing acceptable products, there are NO unsalted organic butters listed. Wondering if this was an oversight & if there are any out there that can be recommended.
Yes – I’d like to know this as well. For example, the Whole Foods 365 salted butter is listed in the best category. Does this translate to their unsalted version?
Thanks so much for this informative article!!! I’m changing my brand of butter today.
I’m glad I could be of service.
Where are the findings of the study? The post says how many brands tested as having PFAS but doesn’t give the list. Am I missing it? Is it in a link and I’m just not seeing it? I can’t find the list of brands and their results.
The raw data is at the bottom of the post, but if you are having trouble use the clickable table of contents.
Looks like the FDA has been on the pay roll . I always wanted to know why it was fine to put one drop of anything bad for us in anything we use ? Just like the fake Sweetener they said when it first started using it we would have to consume so much of it per day for it to make us sick WELL IT IS IN EVERYTHING WE EAT, pop, candy,salad dressing, sauces, EVERYTHING and I just heard them say it again we would have to consume so much of it WE ARE there is ZERO in everything.😡🤬 Doesn’t matter any more it is too late we have allowed money to take over our health the Rich will package things as cheap as possible money money money !!!!!
Interesting list to start, But, to be more thorough, another study on the most popular brands should also be included. Kirkland, Land of Lakes, Challenge, Tillamook, Darigold, ect..
Thank you for the information…look forward to more updates on lists.
Well well ,but I’d say more importantly ,and in fact quite obviously ,phase and other containments,in larger quantities are right in front of our faces. Cars, trucks , airplanes are the worst. Consider ,brake dust,from brake pads coatings used on rotors,tires by quit possibly the billions,creating toxic dust on roadeays,washed into storm sewrs ,possibly ground water headed for our waterways more needs to be done. I venture to say
More reason why we need a ban on these chemicals pronto.
Why didn’t you test Costco’s Kirkland butter?
We had one donation of Kirkland butter that we tested, yes.
Can you test off brand items from different stores also? Plz?
If you would like to donate other brands, reach out to me at leah at mamavation dot com please. Put BUTTER DONATION in the title of your email please. Thanks
Killing softly I see
I noticed “champion butter” hasn’t been included in the study!
No one donated that brand
Ok
I buy Lewis Creamery, Grass Fed butter from New Zealand- Whole Foods sells it. It is in a foil-type wrapper. I wonder if its ok?
You can alwasy donate two of them to me and I can update this post later with more later in the year. But if you donate, I can give you the results as soon as I have them behind the scenes. Reach out to me at leah at mamavation dot com.
Ready to send the lewis wrappers. I’ve already donated before. I so appreciate the info you provide. Please contact me with how/where to send wrappers.
We use Miyoko’s unsalted butter. I assume it’s probably using the same type of wrapper as their salted butter. I will be reaching out to them asap to get their response. This is all so ridiculous..!
I’m new here.
Thank you for doing all this research. So sad and frustrating that we have to do this. When I eat certain things in the US my ankles hurt to walk when I’m in Europe I can eat everything and never hurt.
Have yiu test the President Bitter before ?
We have not tested that brand. But if you would like to donate butter wrappers, we can accept 2 for testing and perhaps update this at a later date with more brands. Email me at leah at mamavation dot com for details.
It’s probably the gluten in the US. Try cutting that out while you’re here and see how you feel.