Naturals Oven Roasted Turkey Breast vs White Butcher Paper 18" x 12000" Natural Butcher Paper Roll for Meat and Fish: which is safer?

Idl Packaging White Butcher Paper 18" x 12000" Natural Butcher Paper Roll for Meat and Fish is the clear pick. Applegate Naturals Oven Roasted Turkey Breast carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.

Applegate Naturals Oven Roasted Turkey Breast

Applegate

Naturals Oven Roasted Turkey Breast

PFAS grade

Poor 25/100

Overall grade

Bad 0/100

Verdict

Skip

Hazard flags

⚑ 5

Material

Plastic film package with grease-resistant coating (likely food contact surface)

Confidence

45%

PossiblePFAS in grease-resistant coating

PossibleUnidentified food contact coating leachables

ReportedSodium content (product formulation, not packaging)

Our pick

Idl Packaging White Butcher Paper 18" x 12000" Natural Butcher Paper Roll for Meat and Fish

IDL Packaging

White Butcher Paper 18" x 12000" Natural Butcher Paper Roll for Meat and Fish

PFAS grade

Excellent 95/100

Overall grade

Excellent 87/100

Verdict

Buy

Hazard flags

⚑ 2

Material

natural kraft butcher paper, no coating specified

Confidence

78%

PossibleBleach residue and chlorine compounds

PossibleMold or microbial contamination in storage

Where these two actually differ

  • We flag PFAS in grease-resistant coating, Unidentified food contact coating leachables, Sodium content (product formulation, not packaging) and Processed meat classification (product formulation, not packaging) on the Applegate and not on the IDL Packaging.
  • We flag Bleach residue and chlorine compounds and Mold or microbial contamination in storage on the IDL Packaging and not on the Applegate.
  • The Applegate is Plastic film package with grease-resistant coating (likely food contact surface) where the IDL Packaging is natural kraft butcher paper, no coating specified, which is most of the difference in these two grades.
  • The gap is 70 points, wide enough that this is not a close call, and the IDL Packaging is the one to buy.
  • We are less certain about the Applegate grade, at 45% confidence against 78%, because it discloses less.

Both products run through the same public rubric, which covers materials, coatings, brand disclosure, lab findings, and recalls, plus a beyond-PFAS hazard analysis. Grades are model-based estimates, not lab tests. How grades work →

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