Butcher Packaging Paper vs White Butcher Paper 18" x Natural Butcher Paper Roll for Meat and Fish: which is safer?
Idl Packaging White Butcher Paper 18" x Natural Butcher Paper Roll for Meat and Fish is the clear pick. Butcher Packaging Paper carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.
Butcher Packaging Paper
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
PossiblePFAS in grease-resistant coating (type unspecified)
PossibleMigration of coating additives to fatty foods
PossibleDegradation and coating flaking at high temperatures
Our pick
IDL Packaging
White Butcher Paper 18" x Natural Butcher Paper Roll for Meat and Fish
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
PossibleMold or microbial growth during storage
Where these two actually differ
- We flag PFAS in grease-resistant coating (type unspecified), Migration of coating additives to fatty foods and Degradation and coating flaking at high temperatures on the and not on the IDL Packaging.
- We flag Mold or microbial growth during storage on the IDL Packaging and not on the .
- The is Paper with grease-resistant coating (type unspecified) where the IDL Packaging is bleached paper, uncoated, 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 grade, at 42% confidence against 82%, because it discloses less.
Both products run through the same public rubric: 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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