Health risks of using thin plastic bulletins for hot food

By Ndimuh Bertrand Shancho* The packaging of hot food items, including grilled pork (soya), cooked beans, puff-puff, fried potatoes & eggs, directly into small thin plastic bulletins for customers by food vendors has become a new normal in many urban centers across Cameroon. This practice usually appears convenient and cost-effective but poses serious health risks that many are either ignorant of or have simply decided to overlook. These plastic wrappers used are often less than 60 micrometers thick, with limited ability to withstand the high temperatures from the grilled pork, beans, puff-puff and others just coming out from hot oil.…